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Erie Co. — Place-names, Elk Creek, E. C. Twp., and E. C. P. Office in 

 southwestern part of county. See under Erie Co. in the notes on American 

 Bison, by Ashe, next article. 



Jefferson Co. — Place-names, Elk River in the north, and Little E. River in 

 the south of Co. 



Luzerne Co. — In " Bartram's Observations" (London, i75i,p. 27), it is 

 recorded that fresh tracks of elk were seen above " Cayuga Branch, near 

 Tohiccon," on the Susquehanna River, and later (p. 68), he states under date 

 of Aug. 10, 1742, "Just above the junction of the east and west branches of 

 the Susquehanna River, where was a lick, one of the Indians shot and 

 wounded an elk." On that day they made an observation and found the lat- 

 itude to be 41^°. 



Lycoming and Tioga Cos. — The wapiti is " now almost extinct in most 

 parts of Pennsylvania. * * * i found their horns repeatedly in the woods, 

 mossy and gnawed by mice or wolves. A pair of elks were shot on Pine 

 Creek in the spring [1835], and a herd of 13 was killed by a couple of hunt- 

 ers in February of last year [1834], near the headwaters of Pine Creek." — 

 R. C. Taylor in Loudon's Magaz. N. Hist., vol. 8, 1835, pp. 536, 539. 



McKean Co. — " In 1835 my father, Edward Dickinson, who was a green 

 hunter at that time, killed two large buck elk on Colegrove Brook in Norwich 

 Township, McKean county." — C. W. Dickinson. The specimen of male elk 

 in the museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, was not 

 killed in Potter county, as often stated, but in McKean county. — W. W. 

 Larrabee's statement to S. N. Rhoads in 1896. " In the forepart of the 19th 

 century elk were very plenty in this part [south part] of the state." — C. W. 

 Dickinson. 



Mercer Co. — B. S. Stokley, in Memoirs of the Histor. Soc. Penna. (Vol. 4,. 

 1846, p. 77), writes: "One Buffalo horn and two Elk horns were found in 

 1795 and 1797 [in Mercer Co.]." "A few Elk were seen and one killed 

 near the western boundry of the county since 1 794." 



Monroe and Pike Cos. — "The Elk was probably never as numerous in this 

 [Pocono] region as in the central Allegheny mountains, those individuals 

 taken in lormer days being considered by the [present] natives as stragglers 

 from the main body. The last capture in Pike county was probably not later 

 than 1840 or 1845." See Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1894, p. 389. 



Northampton Co. — This Co. was included in the area alluded to by Penn 

 in his letter to the Free Traders in 1683 as containing "the elk as big as a 

 small ox." Then part of Bucks Co. — Rhoads. 



Philadelphia Co. — Peter Kalm in his "Travels" (Vol. i, p. 336), says that 

 an Indian living in i 748 had killed many " Stags " on the spot where Phila- 

 delphia now stands. See also (antea) for references to eastern Penna. 

 There is much reason for believing this seemingly extraordinary statement. 



