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\—— found during that feafon but ia fuch places as can” 
ji anuary. 
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birch-tree; on which account they are never’ 
afford them a plentiful fupply of their favourite 
food: and though they have no fore-teeth in the — 
upper-jaw, yet I have often feen willows and {mall 
birch-trees cropped by them, in the fame manner 
as if they had been cut by a gardener’s fheers,” 
though fome of them were not {mailer than com-_ 
mon pipe-ftems; they feem particularly partial to ¢ 
the red willow. 
In Summer they are generally found to fre-) 
quent the banks of rivers and lakes, probably: 
with no other view than to have the benefit of | 
getting into the water, to avoid the innumerable 
multitudes of mufkettos and other flies that pefter 
them exceedingly during that feafon. There is 
alfo a variety of water-plants, of which the moofe. 
are very fond, and which are adapted to their 
neceflities in a peculiar manner during the Sums 
mer feafon, as they can eafily brouze on them 
when nearly emerged in water, to avoid the tor- 
ment of the flies. | 
The head of the moofe is, as I have obferved, 
remarkably long and large, not very unlike that. 
ofa horfe; but the nofe and noftrils are at 
leaft twice as large. The ears are about a foot 
long, and large; and they always fland ered. 
Their faculty of hearing is fuppofed to be more 
acute than either their fight or feent; which 
makes it very difficult to kill them, elpecialiga as” 
the bem in thofe parts have no other method’ 
of 
