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able for converting into leather are those of animals 

 killed early in the winter, which, when subjected to a 

 process similar to that detailed in the case of the 

 moose, but bleached in the frost instead of being smoked, 

 furnish a most beautiful, even, and white leather." 



The districts in which the Caribou is now most 

 commonly found are the wilds north of Quebec, and the 

 country about the upper waters of the Restigouche, and 

 here they are met with in considerable abundance, 

 roaming the picturesque forests and solitary tracts in 

 small herds or broken parties of six or seven ; seldom or 

 ever being seen singly, like the moose. Mr. Robert Bell, 

 in his Report on the natural history of the St. Lawrence 

 District, already mentioned, states that they are also very 

 common in the Shick- shock range of mountains in the 

 Eastern province, and that " some of his party reported 

 having found on the extensive table-top of Mount Albert, 

 one of this chain, a large area covered with immense 

 quantities of Caribou horns, most of them evidently of 

 great antiquity." Mr. D' Urban also, in his Report on the 

 fauna of the Valley of the River Rouge, says the 

 Caribou is found in the districts of Argenteuil and Ottawa, 

 on Trembling Mountain, " the gneiss rocks of which are 

 covered with its peculiar food, the Cladonia rangi- 

 ferina." 



This lichen is what the settlers call " white moss ;" 



