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IV. A Letter from Samuel Dale, M. L . to 
Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Brefident of the 
Royal Society, containing the Defcnpt'ions 
of the Moofe-Deer of New-England, and 
a fort of Stag in Virginia $ with fome Re- 
marks relating to Adr. Ray's Defcriptiolt 
of the flying Squirrel of America. 
Worthy SIR, 
T HE Prefent which I herewith make you, is the 
Head, or rather the Attire (as it is called in 
Heraldry) of the Moofe-Beer, fent me fome Years 
fince from New-England by the Honourable Samuel 
Shute, Efq; then Governor of that Colony. This 
Animal hath been mention'd by feveral Authors, but 
their Accounts have generally been fo very imperfed, 
that little Satisfadion hath thereby been given to the 
curious Inquirers after Natural Hiftory. The firft Men- 
tion that I find of this Moofe "Beer is by Mr. JoJfelyn, 
in a little Trad called New-England Rarities , where, 
Page the ipth, that Author writes, That if s a goodly 
Creature , fome of which being 1 2 Foot high , their 
Horns exceeding fair, with broad F alms, fome be- 
ing two Fathoms from the Tip of one Horn to the 
other. Much to the fame purpofe is the Account he 
gives of this Animal in another Book of his called 
Two Voyages to New-England, p. 88. in which he 
faith, that The Moofe, or Elke, is a Creature or rather 
a Monfler of Superfluity , when full grown, being 
many times bigger than an Englifh Ox. What Neal 
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