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is 10 feet and a -J-; and that a doe or hind of the fourth year, killed by a gentle- 

 man near Boston, wanted but 1 inch of 7 feet in height. The stag, buck, or 

 male of this kind, has a palmed horn, not like that of our common or fallow 

 deer, but the palm is much longer, and more like that of the German elk ; 

 from which it differs, in that the moose has a branched brow-antler, between 

 the burr and the palm, which the German elk has not. 



Fig. 7, plate 4, represents the head, or rather the attire, as it is called in 

 heraldry, of a black moose-deer, which was sent to Mr. Dale from New Eng- 

 land ; the dimensions of which are, as follow : 



AB 56 inches, ca 34, ce 31, cd 34, dh 30, fg Q-l, fi 14, kl 7. 



The horn of this New England black moose agrees not in figure with either 

 of those mentioned in Phil. Trans. N°227, and N°394, found fossil in Ireland; 

 the last of which Mr. Kelly writes, that for want of another name, they called 

 them elks-horns. Mr. Dale suspects that those horns Mr. Ray mentions, in 

 his Synopsis Methodica Animalium quadruped to have seen with Mr. Holney, an 

 apothecary at Lewis in Sussex, as also in divers museums, were not the horns 

 of this black or American moose, but of the German elk ; because that in- 

 quisitive gentleman takes no notice of any brow-antlers they had, which Mr. 

 Dale thinks was too remarkable to have escaped his observation, had there been 



any such. 



As to the number of young ones, or calves, which the moose brings forth at 

 a time, authors vary : for, Mr, Dudley says, they bring forth only 2 : but 

 Josselyn in his '1 Voyages, and from him Neal, that they bring forth 3 ; and 

 that they do not go so long pregnant, as our hinds, by 2 months. What these 

 two last- mentioned authors write, as to their casting their calves a mile distant 

 from each other, does not seem probable ; nor does Mr. Dale find that Neal, 

 in his description of this animal, makes any mention of their having a long tail, 

 though charged so by Mr. Dudley, who also omits the brow-antlers in his de- 

 scription of their horns. 



There is another beast of the deer kind, which though very common in 

 Virginia, and doubtless in others of the northern provinces of America, yet so 

 far as Mr. Dale knows is not described by any author. Mr. Beverley, in his 

 present state of Virginia, mentions both elk and deer in that country, but does 

 not describe either. 



But by what Mr. Dale received from Mr. Catesby, the first should be the 

 Canada stag, and the other the deer here mentioned. Mr. Clayton also men- 

 tions the elk, which he says are beyond the inhabited parts, and are the same 

 with Mr, Beverley's ; as also the deer of which he says there are abundance ; 

 yet he does not describe them, but calls them red deer, though they are not the 

 same with what we here call by that name, but of those that follow. 



