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forward curve at the tips and backward prongs, above, 
of the American round-horn, with the terrible brow 
antlers and forward tines of the usual structure below. 
Lastly, it differs from all in this—that its brow antlers, 
instead of dividing with an outward curve over and 
without each eye, close with a straight inward inclina- 
tion, until the tips almost meet, nearly in the centre of 
a brow. 
Once more, as to size, there are the leg, with hoof, 
pastern and cannon-bone of an ordinary sized Cariboo; 
and the leg, with hoof, pastern and cannon-bone of an 
extraordinarily large-sized American deer, and as such 
selected, hanging side by side in Mr. Vorter’s office. 
The limb of the Cariboo is considerably more than one- 
third superior in size to that of the common deer, and is 
fully equal to that of a yearling heifer of the very larg- 
est stature, and from its peculiar structure, being cleft 
nearly the full length of the pastern to the fetlock-joint, 
would evidently leave a much larger track. 
I have seen and ridden aged thorough-bred horses of 
fourteen and a half hands—four feet ten inches high— 
whose limbs were in all respects inferior to that of this 
superb specimen of the deer tribe; and right confident 
am I, from observation of several of their heads, their 
hides and hoofs, that from fourteen and a half to fifteen 
hands will be found to be the average height of the 
Cariboo. Ifthe Lapland Reindeer ever exceeds thirteen 
it will be surprising to me. While on this topic, how- 
