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a week had killed a Moose-calf near by that was too young to 

 have left its parents, and claimed to have found tracks of both the 

 old ones. We lived on her tenderloin — after getting her to camp 

 under great difficulties — for about a week. 



" On our way out of the region, whence we made our exit at 

 the F'irst Saranac Lake, we stopped at Rartlett's on Round Lake, 

 which appeared to be a famous and extensive rendezvous for 

 hunters and guides ; and on the register there we recorded con- 

 spicuously opposite our names our notable, albeit fortuitous, 

 achievement.! * | I think we recorded it as weighing about 800 lbs. 

 and standing about seven feet high in the hump. The derisive 

 incredulity which this entry evoked was only silenced by the pro- 

 duction of the hide, which we had brought with us." 



No credence is to be given to the report, widely circulated 

 by the press, that a Moose has during the past winter been seen 

 near the Ox-bow on Moose River, in the Woodhull Lake region. 



Note 2. — That the American Elk or Wapiti (Ccrvus Canadensis) 

 was at one time common in the Adirondacks there is no question. 

 A number of their antlers have been discovered, the most perfect of 

 which that I have seen is in the possession of Mr. John Constable. 

 It was found in a bog on Third Lake of Fulton Chain, in Herkimer 

 County. 



Dr. DeKay (Zool. N. Y., Part I, 1842, pp. 1 20-121) speaks of a 

 specimen consisting of " a portion of a pair of horns attached to a 

 fragment of skull," which was " (\vw up near the mouth of the 

 Raquet River in this State, near the forty-fifth parallel of latitude. 

 It bears a label in the handwriting of Dr. Mitchill, purporting that it 



* Upon the receipt of the a])ove letter, early in October, 1883, I hoped to ascertain the exact date of 

 the killing of this Moose, and at once wrote to Mr. Bartlett, asking if he would consult his old 

 register and send me a copy of the entry here referred to. Unfortunately, his reply has not yet 

 been received. [Since the above went to jiress I have learned of Mr. Bartlett's death.] 



