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by their fiuvns, and there seems every probability of this fine species 
being pennanently established. A few weeks ago (October 8, I860) 
Viscount Powersconrt was kind enough to send me a catalogue of 
the deer, &c., in his park at Powersconrt, near Dublin. This noble¬ 
man is a most active promoter of the society, and his great success 
shows how much individual exertion may do. He has now in his 
park one bull nylgau, one cow ditto; two stag wapiti, three hind 
ditto; one Barbary stag, one hind ditto; one Sambur deer, six hinds 
ditto; one axis stag, two hinds ditto; one male llama, one female 
ditto ; one white hind; and about thirty-five red deer; all these are 
in good health, and the nylgaus and deer breeding well. 
Not many hundred miles from England lives the reindeer ; from 
our earliest infancy we have heard of the great benefit the poor 
Laplanders derive from it—in a domesticated state they drink its 
milk; they cloth themselves with the skins; they eat its flesh, and 
use its sinews and horns; and all the time they use it as a beast 
of burthen, and drive about in sledges drawn by it. The English 
sportsman derives excellent sport in pursuing the reindeer in its wild 
state. 
Here then is a beast which recommends itself to the owners of 
parks and deer forests, to the farmer, and, I was going to say, the 
cabman also. The Dutch have stolen a march upon us in this 
respect, for Mr. Bartlett tells me that in a recent visit to Holland he 
saw them in a state of domestication, and that they do well. 
It is, I believe, an absolute requisite for the reindeer that it be not 
kept on a clay soil; the sod upon which they thrive and breed in 
Holland is sandy. 
Who has not heard of the Moose deer, or elk of Canada, and 
mentally followed the hunter in his active foot-race after the animal, 
or enjoyed the scene, where in a cold frosty night, with the air so still 
that a crack of a twig can be heard for half a mile, the sportsman 
lies secreted, from time to time callhig the moose through his trumpet 
of birch bark. I show on the walls the result of this exciting sport, 
a magnificent head kindly lent me by IMr. Lcadbeatcr, and am inclined 
to put the rpiestion—Why should there not be moose in those parts 
of England which are suited to them ? and why should the English 
sportsman have to traverse the vast Atlantic to obtain a shot at one 
of these noble animals ? 
It often happens that one entire race of men is, for the most part, 
dependent upon a race of animals, and we have a good example of 
this in the North American Indian, who derives much of his 
sustenance from the great bison of the prairies. Every one has read 
and heard of the vast herds of these animals that are annually 
