NORTHERN OCEAN. 
the moofe are never found, not even at any time 
fuet ; but all the external fat is foft, like that of 
a breaft of mutton, and when put into a bladder, 
is as fine as marrow. In this they differ from all 
the other fpecies of deer, of which the external 
fat is as hard as that of the kidnies. 
- The moofe in all their actions and attitudes ap- 
pear very uncouth, and when difturbed, never 
run, only make a kind of trot, which the length 
of their legs enables them to do with great {wift- 
the country they inhabit free from under-wood, 
and dry under-foot, fo that horfemen and dogs 
might follow them, they would become an eafy 
prey,°as they are both tender-footed and fhort- 
winded: But of this more hereafter*. 
The fkins of the moofe, when drefled by the 
natives, make excellent tent-covers and fhoe-lea- 
ther; andin fact every other part of their cloth- 
ing. ‘Thefe, like the fkins of the buffalo, are of 
very unequal thicknefs. Some of the Indian wo- 
men, who are acquainted with the manufacture 
of them, will, by means of fcraping, render them 
as even as a piece of thick cloth, and when well 
drefled they are very foft; but not being dreff- 
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*Mr. Du Pratz, in his defeription of this animal, fays, it is never found 
\ farther North than Cape Bretonand Nova Scotia: but I have feen them 
‘in great numbers in the Athapufcaw Country, which cannot be much 
\fhort of 60° North latitude. 
no gall. ‘The fat of the inteftines is hard, like Js 
nefs, and apparently with much eafe; but were 
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of the year; and, like the other deer, they have ——~ 
aunary. 
