THE MOOSE AND HIS HISTORY 



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of the moose. "Their flesh is not dry Hke Deers 

 flesh/' he writes, "but moist and lushious some- 

 what Kke Horse flesh (as they judge that have 

 tasted of both) but very wholsome. The flesh 

 of their Fawns is an incomparable dish, beyond the 

 flesh of an Asses Foal so highly esteemed by the 

 Romans, or that of young Spaniel Puppies so much 

 cried up in our days in France and England.'* 



The scientific men of Josselyn's time took the 

 old doctor seriously, and his account of the moose 

 was published in the Transactions of the Royal 

 Society of London, "to the right honourable and 

 most illustrious the President & Fellows" of which 

 he dedicated his book. 



Another writer in the Transactions of the Royal 

 Society was Hon. Paul Dudley, F.R.S., Chief 

 Justice of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. 

 Judge Dudley lived in Roxbury, which is now a 

 part of Boston. His paper, published in 1721, is 

 entitled ^ Description of the Moose-Deer in America. 

 His statements are derived "partly from my own 

 Knowledge, and partly from the Information of 

 Men of Ingenuity and Probity, that are better 

 acquainted with it." 



Judge Dudley begins by referring to Josselyn's 

 account of the moose, which he called "imperfect." 



"Of Moose there are two sorts," he writes. 



