as Figure I and the Bulk of their Bodies correfponding 
exadly in Proportion to the wide fpreading of their 
Horns. So that we may fecurely aflerr, that Moofes 
formerly were as frequent in this Country, as they have 
them ftill in the Northern Parts of the fVeff Indies^ 
ISfew England^Firginia.Mar'^land^ Canada or t^ew- France, 
And kaft we may think this Animal peculiar to the 
Continent, and not to be found in Ijlands ; I lately met 
with a remarkable PafTage in John de Laet's French De- 
fcriptien of the Wefl- Indies y that clearly fhews the con* 
trary • which, becaufe it likewife illuftrates and con- 
firms what was (aid before, I'll fet 'Awn in his own 
Words. Speaking of N^w-England, fays he; fly a 
me certaine forte de Befte frequente en ces Pais que les 
fauvages noment Mofe^ de la grandur dun Taureau^ ay ant 
la Tefle d un Dain^ avec les comes larges que muent tons 
les ams, le Col comme une cerf : il fe trouve une grande 
quant ite de ces animaux en une Ijle pres de la Terre Fer* 
me appelle des Anglois Mount ManfeL That is, There is 
a certain fort of Be aft common in this Country y which the 
javage Indians call a Moofe^ as hig as a Bull (he had not 
feeo f (uppofe thofe of the largeft Size} having the 
Head of a Buck^ with hroad Horns ^ which they caji eve- 
ry Tear, and the Neck of a Deer : there are found alfo 
great Numbers of thefe Animals in an Ifland near the CoH' 
tinent caltd hy the Ef^gli(h, Mount ManfeiJ. 
This may give us reafenable grounds to believe, that 
as this Ifland of Mount Manfell murt of neceffity badfome 
Communication with the Main Land of America^ to 
have been thus plentifully ftockt w^th thisfbrt of Beaft ; 
fo Ireland^ for the fame Reafon, muft in the many paft 
Ages, long before the late Difcovery of thzi Nem Worlds 
had fbme fort of Inrercourfe with it likcwift, (though 
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