ELK. 
Much confusion prevails in almost every 
account of this animal ; which^ however, is 
universally agreed to be the largest of the 
Deer genus. It is the Cervus Alces, of Lin- 
naeus; the Alee, of Gesner, of Aldrovandus, 
and of Johnston ; the Elan, of Buffon ; and the 
Elk, of Ray, Pennant, and most other natu- 
ralists. In fact, Elk is it's English name, ap- 
parently derived from the Celtic Elch ; as Elan 
is it*s French appellation, and Alee the name 
of the animal in modern Latin. In the Greek 
language, it is AA;tw ; in German, Hellend, or 
EUend ; in Polish, Loss; in Swedish, Oelg; in 
Russian, Lozzi ; and, in Norwegian, ^Ig. 
The Chinese Han-ta-han ; and the Canadian 
Orignal, which is the French name of the 
Moose-Deer ; are, also, supposed to be only 
local varieties of the Elk. 
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" BufFon has described the Elk and the Rein- 
Deer together; but, though they resemble each 
other in some particulars, we cannot perceive 
the smallest necessity for uniting their respec- 
tive histories, which are in several respects 
essentially different. Nor, indeed, do we en- 
tirely 
