ELK, 
of nature belong to some animal of the Rein- 
Deer kind, but certainly not an Elk. The 
reflection, that such vast horns, by whatever 
beast borne, must have been annually shed, and 
reproduced, fills the mind with astonishment ! 
and the sight of some specimen of them, pro- 
bably, gave birth to the following verses of the 
Poet Waller— 
So we some antique hero's strength 
Learn by his lance's weight and length ; 
As these vast beams express the beast. 
Whose shady brows alive they drest. 
Such game, while yet the world was new, 
, The mighty ISimrod did pursue. 
What Huntsman, of our feeble race. 
Or Dogs, dare such a monster chase ; 
Resembling, at each blow he strikes. 
The charge of a whole row of pikes? 
O fertile head ! which, ev'ry year. 
Could such a crop of wonder bear ! 
. The teeming earth did never bring. 
So soon, so hard, so huge, a thing: 
Which, mi^ht it never have been cast, 
(Each year's growth added to the last) 
These lofty branches had supplied 
The Earth's bold Son's prodigious pride ! 
rieav'n. with these engines, had been scal'd ; 
When mountains, lieap'd on mountains, fail'd." 
Pennant takes the European Elk, and the 
American 
