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Bufrbn (who is one of the lateft naturalifts that hath defcribed 

 the Rein-deer) mentions, that three or four were not long fince 

 carried to Dantzic, where they foon died, as the temperature 

 of the air was too mild for them c ; and in another part of the 

 fame article, he regrets the impoffibility of feeing this quadruped 

 alive in France, on which account he only engraves the Ikeleton, 

 having procured a drawing from a fpecimen in the Mufeum of 

 the Royal Society. Pontoppidan alfo fays, that it will always be 

 a vain attempt to naturalize this animal in other countries, as no 

 nourishment can be found any where elfe which will keep 

 them alive, fo that they have all perimed d . 



Notwithstanding, however, this moll: prevailing opinion, it is 

 contradicted, by the fact of a buck Rein-deer having lived near 

 three years at Homerton (not far from Hackney), in the clofe 

 of Mr. Heyde, a merchant, and which died only in 1773, very 

 fuddenly, having been the preceding day in perfect health. He 

 was fent to England from Norway with a doe, which did not 



Sir Hierom Bowes, who was ambaffador from Queen Elizabeth to the 

 court of Ruffia, brought over with him certain fallow deer, which being 

 yoked together drew a man fitting in a fled, which deer I fuppofe mull 

 have been reins. Camden's Annals, A. D. 1584. 



Gefner, indeed, informs us, that the king of Sweden (though fo near 

 to Lapland) caufed ten of thefe deer to be driven conftantly upon the 

 higheft mountains, in the neighbourhood of the place where they were 

 kept, becaufe they could not endure the heat of that part of Sweden. 

 The fame author, however, mentions, that a rein was prefented to the 

 duke of Saxony in 1561. SchefFer likewife, who was never in Lapland, 

 and printed his work at Strasburgh, gives us the figure of a rein-deer 

 which he himfelf had feen. After thefe inftances, and that mentioned 

 above, I may boldly pronounce the notion, that this fpecies of deer will 

 not live to the fouthward of Lapland, to be a vulgar error. 



c Buffbn, Tom. XII. p. 98, citing Regnard. 



d Pt. II. p. 210. 



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