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BEER. . 
36. Rein, Tarandus ? Plinii lib. viii. c. 34. Acad. iv. 144, 
Le Rangier ou Ranglier. Gaff Le Rerme de Biff ok, xii. 79.- tab, 
ton de Foix atud du Fouilloux 98. x. xi. xii. Briffon quad. 63. 
Tarandus, Rangifer Gefner quad. Reindeer Scheffer Supl 82. 129, ; 
839, 840.. Icon. quad. 57, 58. he Brun s travels, I. 10. 11. CEu* ' 
C'ervus mirabilis, JonJlon quad, vres de Maupertuis, III. 198. Foj~. 
Munjler Coffnog. 1054. age d'Ouihier 141. Ilijl. Kamtchat* 
Macarib, Caribo, Pohano. Joff ka, 228. Bell's travels, I, 213. 
fetin's New England rarities, 20. Martin's Spitzberg, 99. Crantz 
Cervus rangifer Railfyn. quad, 88. Greenl. I. 70. Egede Greenl. 60, 
Rennthier qgad. 23. Ridin- Dabb's Hudforis bay. 20. 22. 
ger wild. ’Tkiere. 35. Hudf. bay. II. 17. 18. 
C. Tarandus. C. cornibiis ra- Le Caribou, Charlevoix kijl. nouvi 
moils recurvatis teretibus, fum- France, v. 190. Br. MuJ\ AJlnu 
mitatibus palmatis, Lin.fyft. 93. Mw/l 
Rhen, Rzaw. Suec. No. 41. Ammn. 
D. with large but llender horns bending forwards, 
the top palmated, with brow antlers broad and pal- 
mated: horns on both fex ; thofe of the female 
lefs, and with fewer branches. A paif from Green¬ 
land was 3 feet 9 inches long, 2—6 from tip to tip ; 
weighed 9 lb. 12OZ. height of a full grown Rein, 4 
feet 6; fpace round the eyes always black •, when it 
firft Iheds its coat, the hairs are of a brownifh aft 
Color; after that changes to white; the hairs are 
very clofely fet together ; along the fore part of the 
neck are Very long and pendent: hoofs large : tail 
fhort. Inhabits the fartheft north of any hoofed quad¬ 
ruped; in America*, Spitsbergen, and Greenland , but not 
further fouth than Canada . In Europe , Samoidea , Lap- 
land , Norway \ in Afia % the north coaft, as far as 
Kamtzchatka , and the inland parts as low as Si- 
beria ; found in all thefe places in a ft ate of 
nature ; is domefticated only by the Laplanders , j 
Samoides and Kamtzchaikans > is to the firft the 
fubftitute of the horfe. the cow, the goat and the 
fheep j 
