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Colour of the mane a iigat brown ; of the body iti 

 general a hoary brown ; tail dusky above, white be- 

 iieathi 



The. vast size of the head ^ the shortness of the 

 Sieck< and the length of the ears, give the beast a de- 

 formed and stupkl look* 



The greatest height of this animal is seventee4i 

 hands ; the greatest weight 1229 pounds. 



The largest horns in the house of the Hudson's 

 B^y Company, weigh fifty-six pounds: tb^eir length 

 is thirty-two inches ; breadth of one of the palms 

 thirteen inches and a half; space between point and 

 point thirty-foiire 



The female is lesser than the male, and wants 

 horns. 



They have a singular gait ; their pace is a sham* 

 bling trot, but ihey go with great swiftness. In their 

 Common v/aik they lift their feet very high, and >vill, 

 'without any difficulty, step over a gate five feet 

 high* 



They feed principally in the night* If they 

 graze, it is always against an ascent, on account of 

 their short necks. They ruminate like the ox-. 



They go to rut in Autumn ; are at that time very 

 furious, seeking the female by sv/imming from isle 

 to isle* They bring two young at a birth, in the 

 tBonth of April, which follow the dam a whole year. 

 During the Summer they keep in families. In deep 

 snows they collect in numbers in the forests of pines, 

 for protection from the inclemency of the weather, 

 Under the shelter of those ever-greens. 



They are very inofifensive, except in the rutting* 

 season J or except they are wounded, when they will 



