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all that write of the Elk defcribe him with a tuft of hair 

 on the left Leg behind, a little above the pattern joynt on 

 the outfide of the Leg, not unlike the tuft (as I conceive) 

 that groweth upon the breaft of a Tjcrkie Cock, which I 

 could never yet fee upon the Leg of a Moofe, and I have 

 feen fome number of them. 



For Children breeding Teeth. 



The Indian Webbes make ufe of the broad Teeth of the 

 Fawns to hang about their Childrens Neck when they are 

 breeding of their Teeth. The Tongue of a grown Moofe, 

 dried in the fmoak after the Indian manner, is a difh for a 

 Sagamor. 



The Maccarib} 



The Maccarib, Caribo, or Pohano, a kind of Deer, as 

 big as a Stag, round hooved, fmooth hair'd and foft as lilk; 



1 Wood (N. E. Prospect, /. <:.) has but two kinds of deer: of which the first is 

 the moose; and the second, called "ordinary deer," and, in the vocabulary of 

 Indian words, oituck (compare attuck or noonatch, deer, — R. Williams, /. c. ; 

 but atteyk, in the Cree dialed, signifies a small sort of rein-deer, — Richardson, 

 in Appendix to Franklin's Journey, p. 665; and it is observable that Rasles' word 

 for chevreuil is norhe), is our American fallow-deer. R. Williams also appears 

 to distinguish with- clearness but two; which are, perhaps, the same as Wood's. 

 Josselyn, in this book, passes quite over the common, or fallow-deer: but, making 

 up in the Voyages for the fallings-short of the Rarities, he goes, in the former, 

 quite the other way; reckoning the roe, buck, red deer, rein-deer, elk, maurouse, 

 and maccarib. What is further said of these animals, where he speaks more at 

 large, makes it appear likely that the second, third, and fourth names, so far as 

 they have any value, belong to a single kind, — the "ordinary deer" of Wood 

 (whose description possibly helped Josselyn's), or our fallow-deer; to which the 

 "roe" is also to be referred: and the "elk" he himself explains as the moose. 

 But, beside these two kinds, Josselyn has the merit of indicating, with some 



