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THE AMERICAN MOOSE 



Moose Brook, two Moose Rivers and Mooseland 

 are villages in Nova Scotia, and Moose Park is in 

 Quebec. Moose Creek and L'Orignal are villages 

 in eastern Ontario, and Moosehorn is found in 

 Manitoba. Moosejaw is a town in the great 

 Moosejaw district of Saskatchewan. It is situated 

 on Moosejaw Creek, so named because it is "where 

 white man mended cart with jawbone of moose." 

 Moosomin is a railroad station in Saskatchewan, 

 whence stages run to the Moose Mountain country. 

 Moosehide is an old Indian village on the Yukon, 

 near the mouth of Klondike River. 



Moosilauke Mountain is a picturesque landmark 

 of northern New Hampshire. Two Moose Moun- 

 tains and Moosehead Mountain are found in New 

 York. There is a Moose Mountain also in New 

 Hampshire, and Moosehorn Mountain in Vermont. 

 New Brunswick has a Moose Mountain, while the 

 Moose Hills and the Moose Woods are geographic 

 features of Saskatchewan. Another Moose Moun- 

 tain, 7960 feet high, is found in the edge of the 

 Rocky Mountain range in southern Alberta. 



Moosehead and Mooselucmaguntic^^ Lakes are 



*s In Douglas-Lithgow's Dictionary of American-Indian Place and 

 Proper Names in New England (Salem, 1909), Mooselucmaguntic is 

 defined as meaning "where the hunters watch the moose by night." 

 Dr. Douglas-Lithgow gives meanings not associated with the moose to 

 Moosilauke, and to one or two other names of Indian origin in which 

 the syllable "Moos" is found. 



