ANIMALS OF THE 



other ruminating animals, it had no teeth, (cutting 

 teeth, I suppose the describe! means). It had a 

 large beard under the throat, like a goat ; and in 

 the middle of the forehead, between the horns, 

 there was a bone as large as an egg. The nostrils 

 were four inches long on each side of the mouth. 

 It made use of its fore-feet as a defence against 

 its enemies. Those who showed it asserted, that 

 it ran' with astonishing swiftness ; and that it 

 swam also with equal expedition, and was very 

 fond of the water. They gave it thirty pounds 

 of bread every day, besides hay, and it drank 

 eight buckets of water. It was tame and familiar, 

 and submissive enough to its keeper. 



This description differs in many circumstances 

 from that which we have of the moose, or Ame- 

 rican elk, which the French call the Original 

 Of these there are two kinds ; the common light 

 grey moose, which is not very large ; and the 

 black moose, which grows to an enormous height. 

 Mr Dudley observes, that a doe or hind of the 

 black moose kind, of the fourth year, wanted but 

 an inch of seven feet high. All, however, of both 

 kinds, have flat palmed horns, not unlike the fal- 

 low-deer, only that the palm is much larger, hav- 

 ing a short trunk at the head, and then immedi- 

 ately spreading above a foot broad, with a kind of 

 small antlers, like teeth, on one of the edges. In 

 this particular all of the elk kind agree, as well the 

 European elk, as the grey and the black moose- 

 deer. 



The grey moose-deer is about the size of a 

 horse ; and although it has large buttocks, its 



