Feet Inches, 



The beam of each horn, at its root, in circumference D Oil 

 The length of the head, from the back of the skull to 



the extremity of the upper jaw-bone NO 2 



The breadth of the skull PQ 1 



A similar pair, found ten feet under ground, in the County of Clare, 

 was presented to Charles the Second, and placed in the horn-gallery, 

 Hampton-court, but was afterwards removed into the guard-room of the 

 same palace. 



At Bally ward, near Ballyshannon ; at Turvy, eight miles from Dub- 

 lin; and at Portumery, near the River Shannon, in the County of Gal- 

 way ; similar horns have been found. In the common-hall of the Bishop 

 of Armagh's house, in Dublin, was a forehead, with two amazing large 

 beams of a pair of this kind of horns, which, from the magnitude of the 

 beams, must have much exceeded in size those of which the dimensions 

 are given above. Dr. Molyneux states, that in the last twenty years, thirty 

 pair of these horns had been dug up by accident in this country : the ob- 

 servations, also, of several other persons, prove the great frequency with 

 which these remains have been found in Ireland. 



Various opinions have been entertained respecting this animal and its 

 existing prototype. This, however, does not appear to have been yet 

 discovered; and these remains may, I believe, be regarded as having 

 belonged to an animal now extinct. 



Dr. Molyneux, in the paper above referred to, in confirmation of his 

 opinion that these are not the horns of the elk, observes, that the elk's 

 horns " are much smaller, and quite of another shape and make ; not 

 palmated, or broad at the end furthest from the head, as ours ; but, on 

 the contrary, broader towards the head, and growing still narrower to- 

 wards the tips' end ;" and concludes with saying, " that it can only 

 answer to that lofty-horned beast in the West Indies, called a moose. 



Mr. Samuel Dale, in the thirty-ninth volume of the Philosophical 

 Transactions, gives a description of the moose-deer of New England ; but 



