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Moofe is moffi like to the ordinary Deer 5 that they 
fpring like them, and herd together fometimes to 30 
in a Company : But whether he means by that Term 
the Red , the Virginian , or the Fallow-Deer ^ is un- 
certain, he having faid nothing of their Horns , which 
was needful to diftinguifh them. The black Moofe is 
(by all that have hitherto writ of it) accounted a very 
large Creature. Mr. Jojfelyn (as I before mentioned) 
makes it many times bigger than an Ox s and Mr. 
1 Dudley writes, that the Hunters have found a Buck 
or Stag- Moofe 14 Spans in Height from the Withers, 
which at nine Inches to the Span, is ten Feet and a 
half; and that a Doe or Hind of the fourth Year, 
killed by a Gentleman near Bofton , wanted but one 
Inch of feven Feet in Height. The Stag , Buck 9 or 
Male of this kind hath a palmed Horn , not like that 
of our common or Fallow-Deer , but the Palm is 
much longer, and more like to that of the German 
Elke> from which it differs, in that the Moofe hath a 
branched Brow-Antler between the Burr and the 
Palm, which the German Elke hath not. 
Nor doth the Horn of this New-England black 
Moofe agree in Figure with either of thofe mentioned 
in the Fhilofophical TranfaBions , N Q 227. p. 485?. 
and N° 394. p. 123. to be found FoJJU in Ireland 
the laft of which, Mr. Kelly , writes, that for want of 
another Name they called them Elks- Horns . I fu- 
fped that thofe Horns which the late Reverend and 
Learned Mr. Ray mentions in his Synopfis Methodica 
Animalium Quadrupeditm to have feen with one Mr. 
Holney , an Apothecary of Lewis in Sujfex , as like- 
wife in divers Mufeums , were not the Horns of this 
black or American Moofe , but of the German Elke 7 
' becaufe 
