REIN DEER. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Cervus Tarandus. C. cornibus ramosis recurvatis teretibus j 
summitatibus palmatis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
Gmel. 1 . p. 176. 
Horns rounded, branched, and bent for- 
wards, palmated at the top. 
Rein Deer. . . . S?n. Buff. v. 6. p. 315. pi. I89. Penn. 
Hist. Quadr. 8. v. 1 . p. 111. pi. 18. 
Penn. Arct. Zool. v. 1 . no. 4. Bew. 
Quadr. p. 114. Shaw Gen. Zool. 2. 
pi. 175. 
We trust no apology will be necessary for intro- 
ducing our account of this interesting animal, with 
a slight comparative view of the value set upon his 
services by the different Northern nations. Mr. 
Pennant, to whom we are chiefly indebted for what 
follows, collected much of his information on this 
subject from the writings of Linnaeus. 
With the Laplanders the rein deer is the sub- 
stitute to the horse, the cow, the sheep, and the 
goat. Those most innocent of people have, even 
under their rigorous sky, some of the charms of a 
pastoral life. They have subdued these animals to 
various uses, and reclaimed them from their wild 
