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The Greenland Buck. 
, fT^HIS Deer, in comparifoii with ours in Englandy is very thick 
H and clumfy, being for Proportion of its Parts more like a well 
grown Calf than a Deer ; from the Ground to the top of the Shoulders, 
it is about three Feet high Englijh meafure; it hath a much fhorterNeck, 
and thicker Legs than is common in the Deer-kind ; in Summer-time it is 
cover’d with fmooth fhort Hair of a Moufe-colour, againft Winter there 
fprings from beneath this a fecond Coat of long rough white Flair, tho’ 
it is a little Brown on the Back, and the lo'wer Part of the Face ; this 
long Flair gives it a thick clumfey Appearance; in the Spring again this 
rough winter Clothing is, as it were, thruft off by the fucceeding Sum- 
mer’s Coat, which is fmooth and ihort, and fo it continues to change its 
Coverings ; what is moft remarkable in this Kind is the Nofe, which is 
wholly cover’d with Flair in that Part, which in other Deer is bare Skin 
and moift: I fuppofe had it been naked, it muff neceffarily have froze in 
thole cold Countries, fo Nature has given it this Covering to defend it ; 
the Eyes. are pretty large, Handing a little out of the Flead ; both Male 
and Female have Horns which is not common ; its Floofs are not point- 
ed, they part pretty much in the Cleft, and are broad at the Bottom, in 
order, ,1 fuppofe, to* keep them from finking too far into the Snow ; it 
hath two fmall Hoofs or Claws behind the greater on each Foot, placed 
pretty high ; the Hoofs are of a dark Horn-colour ; the Horns in this 
were not' perfecff, it being young ; they were cover’d with a PluQi-like 
Skin, of a brown Colour, and fhap’d as in the Figure. 
Ffaw a Head of perfedl Florns brought over with thefe Deer, which 
had two large palmed Branches over the F’yes, conveniently placed as 
Shovels, to remove thiC Snow from the Grafs ; a little above thefe v\'cre 
two other Palms, but lefs, ftanding outward ; above thefe each Flora 
fpread itfelf into five round Branches not at all palmed. A Adale and 
Female of thefe Deer were prefented to Sir Ha?2s Sloaney Amro 1738, 
by Captain Craycotty who brought them over. Sir Elans afterwards pre- 
fented them to his Grace the Duke of Richmond^ who lent them to his 
Park in Sujfex. I hear they are fince dead, without any Increafe. This 
is by fome fuppofed to be the Rain-Deer of the Lapla?tde?^s and Rujpans ; 
but I cannot pretend to affert it is, or is not- The Figure fhews it in 
its winter Clodiino;. 
