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tween the modern Moose, and the owners of the 

 fossil horns may be estimated by the following 

 account. The largest horns of the American 

 Moose ever brought over, are only thirty-two 

 inches long, and thirty-four between tip and tip* 

 The length of one of the fossil horns is six feet 

 four inches ; the space between tip and tip 

 near twelve feet. The largest Moose described 

 by any authentic voyager does not exceed the 

 size of a great horse ; that which I saw (a fe- 

 male) was fifteen hands high ; but we must 

 search for much larger animals to support the 

 weight of our fossil horns. If Josselyji's or 

 Dudly's Moose of twelve feet in height ever 

 existed,* we may suppose that to have been a 

 species, which as population advanced, retired 

 into distant parts, into depths of woods unknown 

 but to distant Indians. 



* Voy. to New England, 88. New England Rarities, 1J>, 

 See also Mr. Dudlys account in Ph. Trans, abridg. VII. 447. 



