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ous half-century, thanks to wise legislation. They 

 lost their foothold in New Hampshire only thirty 

 years ago, five having been killed near the Con- 

 necticut Lakes in 1884. Thirteen years earlier 

 there were said to be some still remaining in 

 northern Vermont.^ 



Before the advent of the white hunter moose are 

 believed to have exceeded the deer in numbers 

 in the Adirondacks. These woods were a favorite 

 hunting ground of the Six Nations, and of the 

 Canadian Indians, who prized highly the moose 

 meat secured there for winter use. And the 

 animals continued fairly plentiful in this portion of 

 their range until the beginning of the second half 

 of the nineteenth century. 



The last refuge of the moose in the Adirondacks 

 was in the country between Raquette Lake and 

 Mud Lake. Their disappearance was partly due 

 to sudden migration, about 1854 or 1855, dogs 

 employed to chase deer driving the moose into 

 parts unknown. But unrestrained slaughter of 

 bulls, cows, and calves completed the extinction 

 of the species in the great "North Woods." 



Governor Horatio Seymour shot a bull in 1859, 

 near Jock's Lake, Herkimer County, N. Y., and 



»"The Vanishing Moose," by Madison Grant, Century Magazine^ 

 January, 1894. 

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