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length, leaving openings at proper intervals befet with fnares, in 
which multitudes are taken. 
The Indians alfo kill great numbers during the feafons of migra- 
tion, watching in their canoes, and fpearing them while paffing over 
the rivers of the country, or from ifland to ifland; for they fwim 
moft admirably well. 
Hift, Quad. N° 45.—Smellie iv. 74.—Lev. Mus. 
Le With long upright horns much branched : flender and 
fharp brow antlers: color a reddifh brown: belly and lower 
fide of the tail white: the horns often fuperior in fize to thofe of the 
European Stags, fome being above four feet high, and thirty pounds 
in weight. 
Inhabits Canada, particularly the vaft forefts about the lakes; are 
feen in great numbers grazing with the Buffaloes on the rich favannas 
bordering on the Mififipi, the Miffouri, and other American rivers ; 
they are alfo found within our Colonies, but their numbers decreafe 
as population gains ground. An Jydian living in 1748 had killed 
many Stags on the fpot where Philadelphia now ftands *. 
They feed eagerly on the broad-leaved Kalmia ; yet that plant is a 
poifon to all other horned animals; their inteftines are found filled 
with it during winter. If their entrails are given to Dogs, they be- 
come ftupified, and as if drunk, and often are fo ill as hardly to ef- 
cape with life f. 
Stags are alfo found in Mexico, where they are called Aculliame : 
they differ not from thofe of Spain in fhape, fize, or naturet. South 
America is deftitute of thefe animals: they can bear the extremes of 
heat but not of cold. They are found neither in Hud/on’s Bay, 
* Kaim i. 336. + Kalm i. 338. t Hernandex, Nov. Hi/p. 325. 
ea Kamt/chatka, 
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