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forward curve at the tips and backward prongs, above, 

 of the American round-horn, with the terrible brow 

 antlers and forward tines of the usual structure below. 



Lastly, it differs from all in this that its brow antlers, 

 instead of dividing with an outward curve over and 

 without each eye, close with a straight inward inclina- 

 tion, until the tips almost meet, nearly in the centre of 

 a brow. 



Once more, as to size, there are the leg, with hoof, 

 pastern and cannon-bone of an ordinary sized Cariboo ; 

 and the leg, with hoof, pastern and cannon-bone of an 

 extraordinarily large-sized American deer, and as such 

 selected, hanging side by side in Mr. Porter's office. 

 The limb of the Cariboo is considerably more than one- 

 third superior in size to that of the common deer, and is 

 fully equal to that of a yearling heifer of the very larg- 

 est stature, and from its peculiar structure, being cleft 

 nearly the full length of the pastern to the fetlock-joint, 

 would evidently leave a much larger track. 



I have seen and ridden aged thorough-bred horses of 

 fourteen and a half hands four feet ten inches high 

 whose limbs were in all respects inferior to that of this 

 superb specimen of the deer tribe ; and right confident 

 am I, from observation of several of their heads, their 

 hides and hoofs, that from fourteen and a half to fifteen 

 hands will be found to be the average height of the 

 Cariboo. If the Lapland Reindeer ever exceeds thirteen 

 it will be surprising to me. While on this topic, how- 



