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have any authentic record (the cut is from a photograph of 

 them) measures in span 66 ins. (or 5 ft. 6 ins.) from tip to 

 tip, but a recent writer in an American work upon sport and 

 natural history (Mr. Hibbs) describes a moose which he saw 

 dead in the Teton Basin, whose antlers spanned 8 ft. 6 ins. from 

 tip to tip, making an arch when inverted under which a man 

 'slightly stooping' could walk. This Titan of the Tetons stood, 



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' wit/wnt his legs under him, 15 hands high,' so that, allowing 

 for the fact that a moose has, according to Caton, ' very long 

 legs, to which he is indebted for his great height,' he must have 

 stood in life, with his legs under him, from 8 to 9 ft. high at 

 the withers. This seems rather tall, even for a moose from the 

 Rocky Mountains. As before stated, this great deer ranges 

 from the Arctic Ocean to the St. Lawrence, and in spite of the 



