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auring eight (French) inches in diameter. The ani- 

 mal is said to live not longer than ten or twelve years, 

 because its horns, advancing forward in proportion as 

 the creature grows, finally pass the nouth, in such a 

 manner as to prevent it from eating grass, upon which 

 alone it lives : and thus it falls a viciim to its hunger. 

 There is, doubtless, some fable misied with this part 

 of the relation. 



The Indians of the country male, of the horns, 

 spoons and cups, some of the last rf which are large 

 enough to contain a sufficiency of food for the break- 

 fast or dinner of four men*. 



The preceding account, of the ho-ned animal of the 

 Stony-mountains, was communicated to me, at least 

 five years since, by Dr. John Watlins, a very intelli- 

 gent physician, who at present resides inNew-Orleans. 

 In the first volume of this Journal]^ I have made men- 

 tion of the same animal, on the ajthority of a Mo- 

 hawk Indian, who met with it in the country north- 

 west of Detroit, and at the distance of several hundred 

 miles from this town. Since this period, several 

 other travellers have seen the " Mountain Ram," as 

 it is sometimes called, in the same, or nearly the same, 

 tract of country. Mr. Lewis, who has, for a consider- 

 able time, been engaged in exploring the country of 



* We are told, that the Tartars muke !" gr4;at clrinking-cups;^ 

 of the horns of the Argali. 



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