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states, and they are becoming scarce in Nova Scotia. In New 

 Brunswick they are seldom found on the rivers emptying into the 

 Bay of Fundy, where in former days they existed in vast numbers. 

 They can yet be found, however, in considerable numbers on the 

 head-waters of the Eestigouche and Miramichi rivers and their 

 branches ; in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, south of the 

 St. Lawrence, in the central parts of the county of Rimouski, 

 and thence southward along the borders of Maine, and all through 

 the country south of the city of Quebec to New Hampshire. In 

 the county of Gaspe they are extinct, having been exterminated by 

 ruthless hunters for the sake of their hides. North of the Ottawa 

 and St. Lawrence rivers, the moose ranges from Lake "Wanapitiping 

 nearly to the Saguenay. Their northern limit is now somewhere 

 near the watershed of Hudson Bay ; it was formerly beyond it. 

 The western limit is about the longitude of Lake Huron. None 

 are now found north of Lake Superior, although they have existed 

 in that region as far north as the Albany River. In the North- West 

 territories they are found as far as the Mackenzie River. A friend 

 gave me the measurements of a moose killed in Rupert's Land, 

 which, if correct, would go far to verify some of the old-time 

 stories of the wondrous size of the moose. In the United States, 

 moose are still found in sufficient numbers to warrant the belief 

 that, by judicious protection, the species might be perpetuated. 

 They are quite abundant in Oregon, Washington Territory, and 

 the whole northern border of the United States as far as the Lake 

 of the Woods. They are still met with occasionally in the northern 

 part of Michigan, along the shores of Lake Superior, and very 

 rarely in Northern Vermont and the Adirondack region. They also 

 inhabit the wooded region of the great lakes, and that lying thence 

 westward to the Rocky Mountains. The southernmost point at 

 which they have been found in the west is in Baho, on the forks 

 of the Snake River, near the Three Tetons, where several were seen 

 and killed by members of the United States Geological and 

 Geographical Survey of the Territories. The present southern 

 limits of the moose on the Atlantic coast are the provinces of New 

 Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, in the Bay of Fundy. These provinces 

 are still his favourite haunts, and here in the present day he is 



