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its full growth much digger than an Ox) mth epiceediag 
fair Horns with Iroad Palws^ feme of them Two Fathom 
or Twelve foot from the Tip of one Horn to the other. 
That is, Fourteen Inches wider than Ours was. 
Another thus defcribes the Manner of the Indians 
Hunting this Creature : They commonly hunt the Moofe, 
which is a kind of Deer, in the Winter, and rm him down 
fometimes in 'half otherwhile a whole Day^ when the 
Ground is cover d with Snow, which ufually lyes here Four 
Foot deep; the Beaji, very heavy, finks every Step as he 
runs, breaking down Trees as hig as a Mans Thigh with 
his Horns , a^ length they get up with't , and 
darting their Lances^ wound it fo, that the Creature 
walks heavily on, till tired and fpent with lofs of Bloody 
. it finks and falls like a ruind Buildings making the Earth 
Jhake under it. Thus far whatthefe Authors fay of the 
Moofe, 
I do not know any one that has yet obliged the Pub 
lick by giving an exacSt Figure of this (lately Creature, 
which would be acceptable to the Curious, and very 
well worth the while of (bme of thofe ingenious Inqui- 
rers that go into thofe Parts for the improvement of 
Natural Hijtory : for I take it next the Elephant, to be 
the moft remarkable Quadruped for its largenefs in the 
World. However, in the mean time, by the help of 
the foregoing Accounts, we may eafily form to our 
ielves a lively and juft Idea of its Figure and Size; 
and if we compare the feveral Parts of thofe Difcripti- 
ons, with the Beafts whofe heads are found here in Ire- 
land; ViiQ lhall not have the leaft Reafon to quc ftion 
but ihefe vaftly large Irifi? Deer and the American Moofe, 
were certainly one and the fame fort of Animal, being 
all of the Deer Kind, carrying the fame fort of Palmed 
HornSy which are of the fame Size and Largenefs as weli 
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