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fecourfe, becaufe there is in thofe latitudes no other fuftenance 

 during the winter. 



I have, indeed, procured fome of this lichen, which I have 

 tatted, and conceive from, thence it may be a nourifhing focd 

 •either to man or beaft; it is, however, by no means peculiar to 

 Lapland, as we have much of the fame on our own heaths. In 

 one refpecl, indeed, the Rein fares better in England than in 

 Lapland, as HofFberg and all other naturalifts fpeak much of its 

 fuffering from an infect, which they term the Oeftrus Tarandi s . 

 We have, perhaps, the ,fame gad-fly in England, but they are 

 not fo numerous, and Mr. Heyde's Rein did not feem to feel 

 much inconvenience from this perfecution ( . 



Le Brun obferves", that the Rein carries his head fo high, that 

 the horns touch the back ; and it is not therefore improbable that 

 thefe antlers may be given them as a means of removing thefe 

 very troublefome infects. 



The fame traveller takes notice, that the chiefs of the Samoieds 

 have fometimes fix or eight of them to draw their traineaus, and 

 that they never fweat, notwithstanding their being often much 

 preffed, but pant with their tongues out, juft as grey-hounds do 

 after a fevere courfe. 



Leemius alfo informs us, that after being hard driven they 

 lofe their fight frequently for three or four days*. 



I have before obferved, that Mr. He} r de's buck rein was very 

 good humoured ; poffibly, however, if he had been harnefled, I 

 Should not have found him fo tractable, for on account of its 



s Thefe infects pierce the &\n of the Rein in fuch a manner, that the 

 Laplanders would have no hopes of felling it, if they did not fill up the 

 holes in order to defraud the purchafer. Leemius, p. 68. 



1 That ,moft able entomologift, Mr. Hudfon, F. R. S. informs me, 

 that he hath'feen the Oeftrus Tarandi in England. 



u Vol. III. p. 25. 



* P. 52. 



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