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Chinklacamoose may be derived from certain words meaning 

 "large laughing moose," probably the name of a chief {Hand- 

 book of American Indians, vol. i, p. 272), but this would 

 carry with it no implication that moose had ever occupied that 

 region. 



A number of Pennsylvania legends in which the moose 

 figures are related by Henry W. Shoemaker in Pennsylvania 

 Deer and Their Horns (Reading, Pa., 1915), and in luniata 

 Memories (Philadelphia, 1916), by the same author. Mr. 

 Shoemaker states that among the place names of Pennsylvania 

 are found Moosic Lake in Lackawanna County, Moosic Moun- 

 tain in the same vicinity, and, in Clearfield County, two Moose 

 Creeks. Moosic village is six miles south of Scranton. 



"Moosic" in Pennsylvania and "Moosup" in Connecticut 

 naturally suggest the presence of the moose at some time in 

 those sections. But, according to J. Hammond Trumbull, 

 "Moosup River , . . was formerly Moosup's River, Moosup 

 or Maussup being one of the aliases of a Narragansett sachem 

 who is better known, in the history of Philip's war, as 

 Pessacus." {Collections, Conn. Hist. Soc, vol. ii. [1870], p. 

 37.) And Dr. Hollister may easily be mistaken when he says 

 that Moosic Mountain "takes its name from the moose in- 

 habiting it at the time of the earliest exploration by the 

 whites." 



H. 



VERMONT'S LAST MOOSE 

 (See page 33.) 



One day in March, 1899, a report was brought to a lumber 

 camp near Island Pond, Essex County, Vermont, that a strange 

 animal had been seen in the woods not far away. Two men 

 started in pursuit, and one of them, Jake Barnes, killed the 

 animal by a shot behind the ear. It proved to be a young 

 bull moose. The killing was contrary to law, and in the 

 following September the case was brought before the grand 



