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the west of this limit or southward to the Atlantic coast. 

 In Lower Canada, on both sides of the St. Lawrence 

 below Quebec, and on the north side so far as to Mon- 

 treal, it is exceedingly abundant, but to the westward of 

 that city it is rarely if ever found south of the great 

 Ottawa river. A single Moose was killed during the 

 summer of 1849 by an Ojibwa Indian on the Severn 

 river, which debouches into the north side of the great 

 Georgian Bay of Lake Huron, the skull of which I saw 

 myself, and it was asserted by the Indians generally, 

 that none of the race had been killed within the last 

 fifty years, at nearly which distance of time it was a 

 traditional belief that one had been killed, a straggler, 

 in the same vicinity. To the northward of this they 

 roam as far toward the pole as the forest region extends, 

 the Moose being, as we shall see when we come to speak 

 of his structure and habits, as much adapted to the 

 forest, as is the American Elk, or Wapiti, Cervus Cana- 

 densis, to the prairie. 



The original limits of these two great deer would seem 

 to have been originally almost identical as to their 

 frontiers, the one beginning exactly where the other 

 ceases to exist, and the one being as remarkably a 

 western as the other is an eastern animal. The Elk was 

 found originally from the western regions of Pennsyl- 

 vania, if not throughout all the inland portions of that 

 state, through all the intermediate states, a little way 

 back from the sea-board, of Virginia, Kentucky, and 



