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must be referred to the elk kind, but of a species 

 different from the European, being provided 

 with brow antlers which that wants : neither are 

 they of the Moose deer or American, which en- 

 tirely agrees with the elk of Europe, as I have 

 found by comparison. Entire skeletons of this 

 animal are sometimes met with, lodged in a 

 white marie. Some of these horns are near 

 twelve feet between tip and tip.* Not the 

 faintest account (traditional or historical) is left 

 of the existence of these animals in our king- 

 dom, so that they may possibly be ranked 

 among those remains which fossilists distinguish 

 by the title of dihwian. 



Mr. Graham, factor to the Hudson's Bay 

 company, once gave me hopes of discovering the 

 living animal. He informed me that he had 

 received accounts from the Indians who resort 

 to the factories, that a deer is found about seven 

 or eight hundred miles west of York fort, which 

 they call Washesseu, and which they say is vastly 

 superior in size to the common Moose ; but as 

 yet nothing has transpired relating to so magni- 

 ficent an animal. The difference of size be- 



* A pair of this size is preserved at Sir Patrick Belleic's, 

 Bart, in the county of Louth. The great difference between the 

 Moose horns and the Fossil is shewen in Plate XVII. and XX. 

 of my History of Quadrupeds. 



