[ 70 ] 



deer in that country pafs northward in the be- 

 ginning of winter, and return to the fouth at the 

 approach of fummer *, and that they pafs in cer- 

 tain beaten tracts well known to the Indians, as 

 well as the EngliOi refiding there, who lie in 

 wait for them, and kill great numbers for their 

 fkins. 1 his makes the thing more ftrange, and 

 contrary to our common way of reafoning, than 

 it feems to be in the erroneous account ; but if 

 we confider, that thefe deer in the winter are 

 cloathed with an exceeding thick covering, 

 which falls off, and leaves them very thinly 

 cloathed in the fummer, it will reconcile this 

 account a little to our reafon. Arthur Dobbs, 

 Efq-, has remarked their pafTage northward in 

 winterj> and fouthward in fummer, in his Ac- 

 count and Natural Hiftory of Hudfon's-Bay. 

 They are faid, by the natives, to pafs very far 

 north in the fummer, and to return, in the win- 

 ter, tar enough fouthward to come to a tempe- 

 rate climate. I have in my fearches after birds 

 difcovered fome few, that are found in England 

 at certain feafons, to be found alfo in Bengal ; 

 and fome found in Europe, though not in 

 England, are found alfo in Bengal: whether 



they 



