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GENERAL REMARKS 
SECTION X. 
Of the Rem-deer, the Tome as well as the Wild: Treatment of tame 
Rein-deer, and the various Advantages which the Laplander derives 
from them—In this Section mention is made, incidentally , of the 
Time about the Winter Sc f ice, when the Sun never rifes above the 
Horizon ; and about the Summer Solftice, when it never fets. 
r |'TIE rutting feafon of the rein-deer begins about the clofe of 
■*** autumn, and the female brings forth her fawns in the 
fpring of the year. The oldeft and ftrongeft buck, called by the 
Laplanders aino-valdo, ufually drives away all the others, and re¬ 
mains the general hufband of the herd. 
It has been a notion that the hinds, or female deers, can only 
bring forth in ftormy weather, which commonly prevails about 
the feed-time, and which from thence has obtained the name 
given it by the Norwegians, of rein-kalv e-rein, or fawning feafon : 
but this, Mr. Leems informes us, is no more than a vulgar pre¬ 
judice ; for thefe animals, he obferves, produce their young indif¬ 
ferently, like all other four-footed beafts. Some of the hinds 
bear annually ; thefe are called aldo : others named kodno every 
other year; and fome that are denominated Jlainak, are barren. 
As foon as the female has fawned fhe lofes her horns. The fawns 
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