THE REINDEER. 
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time the animals halt to ascertain the cau®^ 
of their terror ; their pursuerss top also, 
having loaded as they ran, greet them wit'’ 
another fatal discharge. The consternatio” 
of the deer increases ; they run to and fro i” 
the utmost confusion, and in this manner t'’® 
greatest part of the herd is sometimes 
stroyed within the space of a few hundre*' 
yards. 
Several attempts have been made, but witi*' 
out success, to introduce the reindeer into tb® 
British islands, though the moss upon whi^'’ 
this animal subsists is found abundantly 
Scotland and in many parts of England'’ 
About ten years since, Mr. Bullock brougb* 
over two hundred deer from Norway, some 
which, with a Lapland family, he exhibited 
the Egyptian-hall, Piccadilly. Nearly every o^^ 
died. Some were turned out on the Pentlan 
d 
:d 
hills near Edinburgh, a situation consider^’ 
peculiarly favourable, but all perished. A 
