Lake Umbagog.
Moose Point
1896
August 27
(No 4)
flock passed over or near me. I ignored the Ducks - my
gun - everything but the huge beast on which the glass
was leveled and which was now within less than 200 yards.
As he turned his sides towards me they looked cool and black 
and once or twice they seemed to glisten when the light
from the west glanced on them. What I had taken for a 
long white tail proved to the white lining on the inside
of the hind legs. The real short tail I now saw distinctly and
the excessively long head and Roman-shaped nose looked exactly
as they are represented by droughtsmen & taxidermists.
But in certain other respects the animal did not fulfill
my preconceived impressions of a Moose. His withers in
relation to his hips were scarce higher than those of
a well-built Horse and his body when viewed from
directly in front or behind looked broad and massive.
He appeared to me to be as tall as, and somewhat
larger than, a Horse of twelve hundred pounds weight.
I could see that his nose was reddish-brown or snuff colored
but the head behind the eyes looked nearly as black
as the body.
[margin]Moose[/margin]
  Before leaving this part of the subject I must reiterate
my impression of the striking resemblance which this
creature bore to a Horse for the longer I tooked[sic] [looked] at him 
the stronger it became. It was partly due, no doubt,
to the long, deep body, the high withers, the full
broad chest, [delete]and[/delete] the strong rounded hips & quarters,
[delete]but still[/delete] and the excessively long narrow head with
its marked Roman nose, (a feature prominent, of course, only in
certain breeds of horses) but the way in which the
animal moved had also much to do with it. He
advanced, as I have already said, very slowly rarely taking