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stance, that the hunters call ozV, and the bag the oil- 

 sfiring* The male is said to open this, by means of 

 his horns, as they begin to grow ; when the oil spreads 

 over the young horn, and is supposed to nourish and 

 protect it. This he does regularly, the keeper in- 

 formed Dr. Smith, at 10 P. M. and at 4 A. M, * 



Moose, The descriptions, by European writers, 

 of the elk and moose of America, are confused.... 

 they having confounded these animals : the elk has 

 been ably described by the late lamented Dr. £• 

 Smith, in the second volume of the Medical Reposi- 

 tory ; an abridgement of his minute paper is contain- 

 ed in the foregoing article. The account of the moose 

 shall now be given from Mr, Pennant, whose accu- 

 rate account cannot be improved. The reader is 

 referred to the Arctic Zoology of that able zoologist, 

 for a very accurate plate of the animal. 



The horns have short beams, spreading into a 

 broad palm, furnished on the outward side with 

 sharp snags-; the inner side plain : no brow antlers 

 small eyes; long slouching asinine ears; nostrils 

 large ; upper lip square, great, and hanging far over 

 the lower, has a deep furrow in the middle, &o as to 

 appear almost bifid; under the throat a small ex- 

 crescence, with a long tuft of coarse black hair pen- 

 dant from it ; neck shorter than the head, along the 

 top an upright, short, thick mane ; withers elevated; 

 tail short; legs long, tlie hind legs the shortest; 

 hoofs much cloven. 



* Mecl. Repos. vol. ih 



