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the afflicted, make him hold it in his left hand, and rub his ear with 
it. They ufe it alfo in the colick, pleurify, vertigo, and purple fever; 
pulverifing the hoof, and drinking it in water. The dAlgonkins pre- 
tend that the flefh imparts the difeafe; but it is notorious that the 
hunters in a manner live on it with impunity. 
The favages efteem the Moofe a beaft of good omen; and are per- 
fuaded that thofe who dream often of it may flatter themfelves with 
long life *. 
Their wild fuperftition hath figured to them a Moofe of enor- 
mous fize, which can wade with eafe through eight feet depth of fnow; 
which is invulnerable, and has an arm growing out of its fhoulder, 
fubfervient to the purpofes of the human: that it has a court of 
“other Moofes, who at all times perform fuit and fervice, according to 
his royal will +. 
I lament that I am not able to difcover the animal which owned 
the vaft horns fo often found in the bogs of Jre/and, fo long and fo 
confidently attributed to the Moof/e. Thefe have been found to be 
fometimes eight feet long, fourteen between tip and tip {, furnifhed 
with brow antlers, and weighing three hundred pounds : the whole 
fkeleton is frequently found with them. 
The fables delivered: by Foffelyn, of the Moofe being thirty-three 
hands, or twelve feet, high ; and by Le Hontaz, of its horns weighing 
between three and four hundred pounds; occafioned the naturalifts of 
paft times to call the foffil horns thofe of the Moofe; and to flatter 
themfelves that they had difcovered.the animal they belonged to: but 
recent difcoveries evince the error. I once entertained hopes that 
the Wajfkeffe§ of the Hud/on’s Bay Indians was the fpecies; but by 
fome late information! received from Mr. Andrew Grabam, factor 
in the Bay, I find it to be no other than the common Moofe. 
* Charlevoix, v. 186. - + The fame.. t Wrights Leuthianza, 
haok iii. 20. tab. xxii. § Hif. Quad. 45- 
Hifi. 
Fossin HORNS 
NOT BELONGING 
TO THE Moosr. 
