308 THE OLD-WORLD ELK 



Swedish (about 234 English) miles in a day, when 

 attached to a sledge."" The seven-years' reign of 

 Charles IX. ended in 161 1. The use of elk in 

 harness in Sweden and Norway is said to have 

 extended over two or three centuries. 



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Sledge Drawn by Elk (Magnus, 1555) 



Olaus Magnus, Archbishop of Upsala, in his 

 History of the Northern Peoples, tells of the use of 

 the elk as a draft animal in Scandinavia. '*In 

 Sweden," he writes, ''great speed is made by wild 

 asses, or elk, on the snow-covered ice, especially 

 beyond the royal city of Holmen, toward the 



" Jardine, Naturalists' Library (Edinburgh, 1835), vol. xxi., p. 131. 



