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The GREENLAND BuCK. 
ee 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 Engli/b 
meafure; it hath a much fhorter Neck, and thicker Legs than is common in the 
Deer-kind ; in Summer-time it is cover'd with fmooth fhort Hair of a Moufe-colour, 
againft 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 fhort, and fo it continues to change its Coverings; what is moft 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 moift:; I fuppofe had it been naked, it mutt neceflarily 
have froze in thofe cold Countries, fo Nature has given it this Covering to defend 
it; the Eyes are pretty large, ftanding 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 finking too far into the Snow; it hath two {mall 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 perfect, it being young ; they were coverd with a Pluth- 
like Skin, of a brown Colour, and fhap’d as in the Figure. 
I fawa 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 above thefe were two other Palms, but lefs, ftanding 
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 Su/fex. 
I hear they are fince dead, without any Increafe. ‘This is by fome fuppofed to be 
the Rain-Deer of the Laplanders and Ruffians ; but I cannot pretend to aflert it is, 
oris not. ‘The Figure thews it in its winter Clothing. 
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