LETTER XXVIII. 



To the same. 



SEI.BORNE, March 1770. 



N Michaelmas Day 1768 I managed to get a 

 sight of the female moose belonging to the 

 Uuke of Richmond, at Goodwood; but was 

 greatly disappointed, when I arrived at the 

 spot, to find that it died, after having ap- 

 peared in a languishing way for some time, 

 on the morning before. However, under- 

 standing that it was not stripped, I proceeded to examine 

 this rare quadruped : I found it in an old greenhouse, slung 

 under the belly and chin by ropes, and in a standing posture ; 

 but though it had been dead for so short a time, it was in so 

 putrid a state that the stench was hardly supportable. The 

 grand distinction between this deer, and any other species 

 that I have ever met with, consisted in the strange length of 

 its legs ; on which it was tilted up much in the manner of the 

 birds of the grallce order. I measured it, as they do an horse, 

 and found that from the ground to the withers it was just five 

 feet four inches ; which height answers exactly to sixteen 

 hands, a growth that few horses arrive at ; but then, with his 

 length of legs, its neck was remarkably short, no more than 



