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Macmillan River. These measurements were 

 taken in a straight line between poles held, the 

 one at the heel of the forefoot, the other at the 

 extremity of the hair on the shoulder blade, 

 and were six feet nine inches ; six feet ten 

 inches ; and six feet eleven inches respectively. 



Measured in the same way, the heights of 

 two full-grown bull moose, which I shot near 

 Mattawa, Ontario, in 1900, were six feet one 

 inch, and six feet two inches. 



The length of the hair on the shoulders 

 ought to be subtracted from all these measure- 

 ments to give the actual height of body at 

 the withers, but whether taken quite 

 scientifically or not, all these measurements 

 were made in the same way, and go to 

 prove, I think, that the moose found in the 

 East Yukon country, to the west of the 

 Rocky Mountains, is a larger animal than 

 the moose of Eastern Canada. 



On the average, too, I think there can be no 

 doubt that the moose of the Yukon country 

 grow larger and heavier horns than their 

 eastern relatives ; in fact they seem to me to 



