NAT: URAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 81 
LEP x Va, 
TO THE SAME. 
SELBORNE, March, 1770. 
ON Michaelmas Day 1768 I managed to get a sight of the female 
moose belonging to the Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood; but 
was greatly disappointed, when I arrived at the spot, to find that 
it died, after having appeared in a languishing way for some time, 
on the morning before. However, understanding that it was not 
stripped, I proceeded to examine this rare quadruped ; I found it in 
an old greenhouse, slung under the belly and chin by ropes, and in 
a standing posture; but though it had been dead for so short a 
HEAD OF MOOSE DEER, 
time, it was in so putrid a state that the stench was hardly support- 
able. The grand distinction between this deer, and any other 
species that I have ever met with, consisted in the strange length of 
its legs ; on which it was tilted up much in the manner of the birds 
of the grad/e order. I measured it, as they do an horse, and found 
that from the ground to the withers it was just five feet four inches ; 
which height answers exactly to sixteen hands, a growth that few 
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