Distribution of the Moose 



ern limit in this section.* The moose of the west 

 are relatively small animals with simple antlers, 

 and have adapted themselves to mountain living 

 in striking contrast to their kin in the east. 



North of the Canadian boundary we may start 

 with the curious fact that the great peninsula of 

 Labrador, which seems in every way a suitable lo- 

 cality for moose, has always been devoid of them. 

 There is no record of their ever appearing east of 

 the Saguenay River, and this fact accounts for 

 their absence from Newfoundland, which received 

 its fauna from the north by way of Labrador, and 

 not from the west by way of Cape Breton. New- 

 foundland is well suited to the moose, and 

 a number of individuals have been turned loose 

 there, without, as yet, any apparent results. Sys- 

 tematic and persistent effort, however, in this 

 direction should be successful. 



South of the St. Lawrence River, the peninsula 

 of Gaspe was once a favorite range, but the moose 

 were nearly killed off in the early '6o's by hide- 

 hunters. Further west they are found in small 

 numbers on both banks of the St. Lawrence well 

 back from the settlements, until on the north shore 



*William Roland, an old-time mountaineer, states that he 

 once killed a moose about ten miles north of old Ft. Tet- 

 terman, in what is now Wyoming.T— Editor. 



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