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lichen was supposed to be sufficiently abundant for 
their subsistence, and there to have been left to take 
their chance of life or death, without any farther atten- 
tion to their wants. It is doubtful, indeed, how far, 
even in the Highlands of Scotland, it would be possible, 
with a due regard to the rights of property, to indulge 
them in their wandering propensities ; and we may add 
that it is no less doubtful whether, in any part of the 
United Kingdom, the Rein-deer could possibly be put 
in competition with those other domesticated Rumi- 
nants, of which in its native land it is so well fitted to 
supply the place. 
We believe that of all the attempts to acclimate the 
Rein-deer none has been more successful than that 
which has been made at the Gardens of the Society. 
In this instance a single female, of the white variety, 
has lived and thriven through two successive winters, 
without suffering any apparent inconvenience from the 
change of seasons. Her food has been uniformly dry 
provender ; and she has been constantly confined within 
the same enclosure. We have not met with any other 
instance in which a Rein-deer kept in such strict con- 
finement has survived during so long a period. 
