THE REIN-DEER. 



will travel thirty miles without halting, and, if hard pulhed, will trot between 

 fifty and lixty Englilh miles at one ilretch ; but this extraordinary exertion 

 is always at the expence of the poor creature's life. 



This animal, like all others which have entered into the fervice of man, is 

 liable to more diforders, in a flate of fubje&ion, than when he ranges his 

 native forefts unfubdued. The females are liable to a cracking and bleeding 

 of their teats ; and both male and female are troubled with ulcers near the 

 hoof. At times they feem to loath their food, and on fuch occalions Hand 

 Hill, ruminating or chewing the cud. They are like wife fubjecl: to the 

 vertigo, and will often turn round till they die. But the moll fatal 

 diforder, to which this animal is fubjecl, is called, by the natives, the 

 fuddataka. On the firfl attack, the Deer begins to breathe with great 

 difficulty, its eyes Hare, and its noflrils are expanded. It foon becomes 

 unufually ferocious, indifcriminately attacking all it meets. It ftill continues 

 to feed as if in health, but ceafes to ruminate, and frequently lies down. 

 Thus it goes on, daily confuming, till at length it dies from mere inanition. 

 None were ever yet known to recover from this cruel diforder, which is, 

 unhappily, highly contagious, and often defolates whole provinces ; the only 

 way, therefore, to prevent the increafe of the evil, is to kill the infected 

 animal inftantly. On dhTeclion, a frothy fubftance is found on the lungs 

 and in the brain ; the interlines are lax and flabby ; and the fpleen is walled 

 aim oft to nothing. 



The Rein-Deer is naturally an inhabitant of the countries bordering on 

 the arctic circle, and is found in great plenty in Lapland, Siberia, North 

 America, and Kamtfchatka. 



Many attempts have been made to bring this animal into England, but 

 none proved fuccefsful, until, in the year 1786, the late Sir H. G. Liddell, 

 Bart, brought four from Lapland, and five more the following year. Thefe 

 produced young ones, and there was a reafonable expectation that this ufeful 

 animal might be naturalized; but they all died, perhaps from unfkilful 

 management, of a diforder fimilar to what is called the rot in Sheep, and 

 thus this laudable. attempt proved abortive. 



