12 THE AMERICAN MOOSE 



and reacheth almost downe to his Huxens.'^ . . . 

 There have beene many of them seene in a great 

 Hand upon the Coast, called by our people Mount 

 Mansell,^^ whither the Savages goe at certaine 

 seasons to hunt them [by driving into the water]. 

 . . . And there is hope that this kind of Beasts 

 may be made serviceable for ordinary labour,, 

 with Art and Industry."'^ 



At the time of its publication in 1634 William 

 Wood's New Englands Prospect was the most com- 

 plete account of New England, its climate, soil, 

 fauna, etc., which had been written. The author 

 had spent four years in the Colony. He wrote in a 

 light vein, possessed a lively imagination, and some- 

 times dropped into verse, his enumeration of the 

 beasts of the country being in the following lines: 



The kingly Lyon, and the'-Mrong armd Be are 

 The large lirnd Mooses, with the tripping Deare, 

 Quill darting Porcupines, and Rackcoones hee^ 

 Castelld in the hollow of an aged tree; 



»5 Hock. Mount Desert Island. 



^1 Purchas His Pilgri nes (London, 1625), tenth book, "English Dis- 

 coveries and Plantations in New England and New-found-land," chap. i. 

 Gorges, A Brief Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England 

 (London, 1622), pp. 26-27. An earlier mention of the moose by this 

 name — perhaps the earliest in any book — appears in the edition of 

 Vnrchsis's Pilgrimage published in 1614, p. 755: "Captaine Thomas 

 Hanham sayled to the Riuer of Sagadahoc 1606. He relateth of their 

 beasts . . . redde Deare, and a beast bigger, called the Mus." 



