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becaufe that inquifitive Gentleman takes no Notice of 
any Brow- Antlers that they had ; which, I think, was 
too notorious to have efcaped his Obfervation, had 
had there been any fuch. 
Concerning the Number of young-ones, or Calves? 
which the Moofe brings forth at a time, Authors vary ; 
for Mr. Dudley faith, that they bring forth but two $ 
but Joffelyn in his Two Voyages , p. 89. and from 
him Neal , that they are three, and that they do not 
go fo long pregnant as our Hinds by two Months. 
What thefe two laft-mentioned Authors write con- 
cerning their calling their Calves a Mile diftant from 
each other, doth not feem to me probable. Nor do I 
find that Neal , in his Defcription of this Beaft, makes 
any mention of their having a long Tail, tho' fo 
charged to do by Mr. "Dudley , who likewife omits 
the Brow- Antlers in his Defcription of their Horns, 
There is another Beaft of the Deer-kind , which, 
tho’ very common in Virginia , and without Doubt in 
other of the Northern Provinces of America , yet I 
think it is not deferibed by any Author 5 (but it is ex- 
pected that it will not efcape being taken Notice of 
by Mr. Catesby in his Natural Hiftory of Florida, 
&ci) Mr. Beverly , in his Brefent State of Virginia, 
mentions both Elke and Deer in that Country, but 
doth not deferibe either : But by what I have received 
from Mr. Catesby , the firft fhould be the Canada- 
Stag, and the other the Deer I have here mentioned* 
Mr. Clayton likewife mentions the Elke , which he 
faith are beyond the inhabited Parts, and are the fame 
with Mr. Beverly’s 5 as alfo the Deer , of which he 
faith there are Abundance, yet doth not deferibe 
them, but calls them Red-Deer , tho' they are not the 
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