THE MOOSE AND HIS HISTORY 



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Mr. Bell was writing of the district south of the 

 lower St. Lawrence Rivet, including the Gaspe 

 Peninsula, and he referred to the winter of 1857- 

 58. Since that time legislation in all the political 

 divisions of the moose's American range has 

 checked the "heedless slaughter" which threatened 

 the future of the species, and happily there is 

 now no occasion to apprehend extermination of 

 the moose in either hemisphere. 



