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As I have very frequently viiited Mr. Heyde's Rein, I fhall 

 now mention fome few particulars I happened to obferve myfelf 

 with regard to this quadruped, which is fo feldom to be feen to 

 the fouthward of the Baltic. 



This animal was kept in a clofe of fibout an acre, the grafs 

 of which was rich; and he conftantly fed upon it during the 

 whole year p , though he was much fonder of the lichen, which 

 was fent over from Norway : by holding a little of it in my 

 hand, I could at any time bring him to me. No animal, indeed, 

 could be better humoured, as he would even permit his antlers 

 to be handled when the blood veiTels were moil: turgid. He 

 likewife permitted me to meafure his height, which was three 

 feet two inches and a half, being in his fixth year, and of full 

 growth. Now Leemius obferves, that the doe is not fo large as 

 the buck ; and I have meafured the fpecimen of a Doe-rein, 

 lately fent to the Royal Society from Hudfon's-bay, which is 

 about three feet in height. I ftate this comparifon, becaufe it 

 makes me doubt with regard to the juftnefs of an obfervation 

 of M. de Buffon, who in his article (Rein-deer) fuppofes that all 

 American animals are lefs than the fame fpecies in other parts of 

 the globe. Mr. Pennant alfo takes notice, that the American 

 Elk is larger than the European ?. 



I once faw this Rein in Mr. Heyde's garden, where there 

 was a confiderable variety of flowering fhrubs and foreft-trees, 

 all of which he browzed upon except the elder; he alfo drank a 

 great deal of water out of a pond. 



I have therefore little doubt but that this quadruped will live 

 without the Lapland lichen 1 ", to which it only hath, perhaps, 



p He was fond alfo of bread and oats. 

 1 Synopf. Quad. p. 42. 



r Pontoppidan fays, the Rein is very fond of birch catkins, Pt. II. 

 p. 10. 



recourfe, 



