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ever, I will beg the first Canadian or ISTova Scotian 

 hunter whose eye this may meet, to furnish me with the 

 full statements of height, weight and measurement of 

 a'ny Cariboo he may be so fortunate as to kill, or to have 

 killed, during the present winter. Readers of Graham 

 will find in the February number of the year 1852, a 

 correct and spirited representation of the antlers of the 

 English Red-deer ; and, if they will look forward to the 

 months of February and August of this volume, they 

 will find those of the Moose and American Deer, de- 

 signed by myself from the life, w]iich v will far more 

 easily convey the comparison which I desire to draw, 

 than written words. 



As regards the nature of the pelage, or fur, for it is 

 almost such, of the Cariboo, so far from its being, as the 

 wiseacre of the Encyclopaedia states, remarkable for 

 closeness and compactness, it is by -all odds the loosest 

 and longest haired of any deer I ever saw ; being, par- 

 ticularly about the head and neck, so shaggy as to ap- 

 pear almost maned. 



In color, it is the most grizzly of deer, and though 

 comparatively dark brown on the back, the hide is gen- 

 erally speaking, light, almost dun-colored, and on the 

 head and neck fulvous, or tawny gray, largely mixed 

 with white hairs. 



The flesh is said to be delicious ; and the leather made 

 by the Indians from its skin, by their peculiar process, 

 is of unsurpassed excellence for leggins, moceasons or 



