lllk, under the name of the Orignal ; and the 
Stein-Deer, under that of Caribou. Those ; 
laturalists who suspect that the Orignal is not 
.he Elk, and the Caribou the Rein-Deer, havet 
iiot compared nature with the relation of tra- 
vellers. Though smaller, like all the other ■ 
TAmerican quadrupeds, than those of the Old 
Continent, they are unquestionably the same 
animals." Dr. Goldsmith, on the contrary, 
remarks — There is but very little difference 
between the European Elk, and the American / 
Moose-Deer, as they are but varieties of the 
same animal. Itmav," says he,, "be rather 
larger in America than with us ; as, in the fo- 
rests of that unpeopled country, it receives less 
disturbance than in our own." The Doctor 
describes the American Moose-Deer as of two 
kinds; " the Common Light-Grey Moose, 
V which is not very large — meaning, no doubt, 
BufFon's Caribou — and the Black Moose," 
— or Orignal — " which grows to an enor- 
mous height." Goldsmith, who was a much, 
better poet than a naturalist,, calls them, both 
Orignals., 
It must be confessed, however, that the 
doctor liasj notwithstanding this mistake, 
avoided: 
