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ries in proportion to climate and food. It is 

 not even afcertained which of them are largeft. 

 M. de Buffon thinks that thofe of Europe are 

 larger than thofe of America, becaufe all the 

 animals of the New Continent are fmaller than 

 thofe of the Old. Moft voyagers, however, re- 

 preient the orignal as exceeding the elk in mag- 

 nitude. Mr Dudley, who fent an accurate de- 

 fcription of an orignal to the Royal Society, 

 fays, that the hunters killed one which was more 

 than ten feet high *. This ftature would be 

 necefTary to enable the animal to carry its enor- 

 mous horns, which weigh one hundred and fifty, 

 and, if we believe La Hontan, three or four 

 hundred pounds. 



The Duke of Richmond, who delights in col- 

 lecting, for public utility, every thing that can 

 contribute to improve the arts, or augment our 

 knowlege of Nature, has a female orignal in 

 one of his parks, which was conveyed to him 

 by General Carleton, governour of Canada, in 

 the year 1766. It was then only one year old, 

 and it lived nine or ten months. Some time be- 

 fore it died, he caufed an exact drawing of it to 

 be made, which he obligingly fent to me, and of 

 which I have given an engraving as a fupple- 

 ment to M. de Buffon's work. As this female 

 was very young, it exceeded not five feet in 

 height. The colour of the upper part of the 

 body was a deep brown, and that of the under 

 j" - ? as brighter. 



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