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his Moose. It had a broken jaw, was very lean, and was un- 

 questionably the animal wounded by Mr. Tait. 



In Forest and Stream for April 2d, 1874 (p. 116), Mr. Edw. 

 Clarence Smith states that a cow Moose was killed on Marion 

 River (East Inlet of Raquette Lake) during the summer of 1861. 

 He says that it was shot by a guide by the name of Palmer from 

 Long Lake, while feeding upon lily-pads, about three o'clock in 

 the afternoon ; and that " the persons present were Isaac Gerhart, 

 lawyer ; Mr. Burgin, Rev. Augustus Smith, now settled in West 

 Philadelphia, and the undersigned, all residents of Philadelphia." 

 In response to interrogations, Mr. Smith writes me that this Moose 

 was killed in the month of August. Mr. Smith had also the kind- 



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ness to address a letter of inquiry, in my behalf, to Isaac Gerhart, 

 Esq., a member of the party. Mr. Gerhart's reply is so full of in- 

 teresting details that I make no apology for publishing the greater 

 part of it verbatim. He writes : ''I should say the Moose was 

 shot about the end of the second week in August, 1861, at the 

 mouth of the East Inlet of Raquette Lake, on whose shore, about 

 four miles distant, we then had a camp. We had been up this 

 inlet, your correspondent calls it Marion River a name I cannot 

 recall, for a day's trout fishing. You and your brother [Rev. H. 

 Augustus Smith] and guide were in one boat ; Burgin, a guide, 

 and I in a'nother. We, as usual, ' tho' on fishing bent,' still had 

 our trusty guns, lest some chance game should find us unprepared. 

 At its mouth the Inlet was bordered on either hand by a thickly 

 wooded shore, terminating on the south side in a short promontory, 

 round the end of which a sloping shore curved off to the southwest. 

 Off this sloping shore grew in the water a border of lily-pacls, 

 perhaps a hundred feet wide, and about half as far from the edge 

 of the water the shore became bold and thickly wooded. We were 

 rowing steadily down, the bottoms of our boats covered with finny 

 spoils. I was in the bow of the foremost boat, when, as we came 

 abreast of the end of the promontory, I caught sight of the monster 



