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accounts from the Indians who refort to the fa¢to- 
ries, that there is found a deer, about feven or eight 
hundred miles weft of York fort, which they call 
Woafkeffeu, and fay is vaftly fuperior in fize to the 
common Moofe. But as yet nothing has tranfpi- 
red relating to fo magnificent an animal. The dif- 
ference of fize between the modern Moofe, and the 
owners of the foffil horns may be eftimated by the 
following account. The largeft horns of the Ame- 
rican Moofe ever brought over, are only thirty-two 
inches long, and thirty-four between tip and tip, 
The length of one of the foffil horns is fix feet 
four inches. The {pace between tip and tip near 
twelve feet. The largeft Moofe defcribed by any 
authentic voyager does not exceed the fize of a 
ereat horfe; that which I faw (a female) was fif- 
teen hands high. But we muft fearch for much 
larger animals to fupport the weight of our foffil 
Horns. If Foffelyn’s ot Dudly’s Maofe of twelve feet 
in height ever exifted*, we may fuppofe that to. 
have been a fpecies, which as population advanc- 
ed, retired into diftant parts, into depths of woods 
unknown but to diftant Indians. 
* Voy. to New England, 83. New England Rarities, 109. 
Sge alfo Mr. Dadly’s account in Ph, Tranf, abridg. VII. 447. 
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