The 
Buck, 
(51) 
Greenland 
T HIS Deer, in comparifon with ours in England, is very thick 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 Englifh 
meafure; it hath a much Ihorter Neck, and thicker Legs than is common in the 
Deer-kind ; in Summer-time it is cover’d with fmooth Ihort Hair of a Moufe-colour, 
againfi Winter there fprings from beneath this a fecond Coat of long rough white 
Hair, tho’ it is a little Brown on the Back, and the lower Part of the Face; this 
long Hair gives it a thick clumfy Appearance ; in the Spring again this rough win¬ 
ter Clothing is, as it were, thruft off by the fucceeding Summer’s Coat, which is 
fmooth and Ihort, and fo it continues to change its Coverings; what is moil remark¬ 
able in this Kind is the Nofe, which is wholly cover’d with Hair in that Part, which 
in other Deer is bare Skin and moifi: I fuppofe had it been naked, it muft neceflarily 
have froze in thofe cold Countries, fo Nature has given it this Covering to defend 
it; the Eyes are pretty large, Handing a little out of the Head ; both Male and Fe¬ 
male have Horns which is not common ; its Hoofs are not pointed, they part pretty 
much in the Cleft, and are broad at the Bottom, in order, I fuppofe to keep them 
from linking 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 perfedt, it being young ; they were cover’d with a Plulh- 
like Skin, of a brown Colour, and lhap’d as in the Figure. 
I faw a Head of perfect Horns brought over with thefe Deer, which had two 
large palmed Branches over the Eyes, conveniently placed as Shovels, to remove the 
Snow from the Grafs ; a little abo^e thefe were two other Palms, but lels. Handing 
outward; above thefe each Horn fpread itfelf into five round Branches not at all 
palmed. A Male and Female of thefe Deer were prefented to Sir Hans Sloane , An¬ 
no 1738, by Captain Craycott , who brought them over. Sir Hans afterwards pre¬ 
fented them to his Grace the Duke of Richmond , who fent them to his Park in SuJJ'ex . 
I hear they are fince dead, without any Increafe. This is by fome fuppofed to be 
the Rain-Deer of the Laplanders and RuJJians ; but I cannot pretend to alien it is, 
or is not. The Figure Ihews it in its winter Clothing. 
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