'ELK. 
' • • I 
tirely approve of indiscriminately blending i la 
even the accounts of the European Elk, and tli 
the North-American Moose-Deer ; though, ik 
evidently, the same animal, under the iniluence t 
of different climates. With respect to the i 
Chinese Han-ta-han, so little appears to be C 
yet known, that it may seem of inferior im- ai 
portancc. But, whatever might be our wish, k 
respecting a due discrimination of these several \ 
varieties of the same probable species, we are } 
under a sort of necessity, from the paucity of § 
materials, to adopt too much of the very confu- 1; 
sion against which we have entered our protest, r 
The fact is, that the European Elk, though ( 
seemingly well known to the ancients, and ( 
supposed formerly to have existed in consider- 
able plenty, is at present very rarely met with ; 
except in Sweden, Norway, and some parts of 
Russia. In the woody tracts of Asiatic Russia, 
and particularly in Siberia, the Elk is said to 
be yet found of vast magnitude. The Moose- ! 
Deer, or American Elk, is most common in j 
Canada, and the vicinity of what are called the I 
Great Lakes. 
In Canada,'* says BuiFon, <* and in all the 
rtorthern parts of America, we meet with the 
Elk, ; 
