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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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‘without his legs under jam, 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 9g 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 
