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FRANK FORESTEK S FIELD UPORTS. 



FOREST SPORTS. 



WO only of the eleven noble animals, 

 which I have recounted and described 

 ^^ above, are peculiar, and but four now- 

 indigenous, to the Eastern States and 

 Canada ; although it is certain that 

 two at least, if not three, of the others, 

 were formerly found to the east of 

 the Delaware, and south of the gi-eat lakes. 



The Moose and the Cariboo are never found, and probably 

 never have existed, far to the westward of the River St. Clair, 

 connecting Lakes Huron and Erie, south of the 43d degree of 

 north latitude. Within these bounds they still exist, wherever 

 the advances of civilization have not banished them to deej^er 

 northern solitudes. The Common Deer, and the Black Bear, 

 are still indigenous from the extreme north-east, to the south- 

 western regions of North America, as were undoubtedly the 

 Elk and the Wild Turkey not many years ago. 

 ■ With the Moose and Cariboo, I shall therefore commence, in 

 order to get through those sports which may yet be enjoyed to 

 the eastward, in the first instance, before plunging into the great 

 western wilderness. 



The Moose, as we have seen, is a native only of the colder 

 and woodland regions of the continent, being a browsing rather 

 than a grazing animal, — as his peculiar conformation, the short- 



