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enables them to endure the great severity of the northern 

 winters. The face-hair, different from that of the horse 

 or cow, grows upwards from the mouffle, on the termination 

 of which there is a triangular bare spot. The power of the 

 aws and teeth of the moose is very great. The facility 

 with which they strip the bark from those trees that con- 

 stitute their favourite food is wonderful. Their pace is 

 either a walk or trot, the usual bounding gait of other 

 species being unknown to them. Even if a fallen tree 

 interrupt their progress, instead of rising at it like a 

 horse, they manage to clamber over in a most effective 

 manner. 



Two methods of capturing moose I have not alluded 

 to, for why ? They appear so antagonistic to all those 

 feelings that should actuate the gentleman; viz. by snaring 

 and trapping. The minutiae of the modes of proceeding by 

 which the unsuspicious game is induced to enter either of 

 the above devices, I am certain would not be interesting to 

 a sportsman. 



For many years it was a disputed point whether the 

 moose deer of America and the elk of Europe were the 

 same species ; but the most eminent of recent and present 

 authorities agree that they are identical. Captain Hardy, 

 of the Royal Artillery, who was stationed many years in 

 Canada, and devoted much of his time to moose-hunting, 

 as well as studying this animal's habits, and who is also 

 conversant with the European elk, emphatically asserts 

 that there are not the smallest grounds for any diversity of 

 opinion on the subject. Audubon, an authority on American 

 natural history second to none, refuses to give a decision, 



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