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L A Defcription of the Moo fe- Deer hr America:.. 
By the Honourable Paul Dudley, E/q 3 F. R.S*. 
Communicated by John Chamber] ay ne, Efo 
A Morrg, other things the Royal Society have had: 
from America* 1 hod, in Mr. Lombard* s A- 
bridgment of the Philofoph. Tranfatf. a Ihort Ac- 
count of the Moofe, taken from Mr. Jofelyn's Ilif- 
tory of New England. , but in my opinion fo imper- 
fect that I (hall not fcruple to prefent you with 
the Natural Hiftory of that fine Creature, partly 
from my own Knowledge, and partly from the In- 
formation of Men of Ingenuity and Probity, that 
are better acquainted’ with it. 
The Moofe is a Creature, not only proper, but 
it is thought peculiar, to North America , and one 
of the noblefl Creatures of the Foreftj the Ab- 
origines have given, him the Name of Moofe Moo- 
fuk in the Plural. 
Of Moofe there are two forts, the Common light 
grey Moofe , by the Indians called Wampoofe • thefe 
are more like the ordinary Deer, fpring like them, 
and herd fometimes to thirty in a Company. And 
then there are the large , or black Moofe , of which 
I fliall now give you the following Account. 
lirfl, That he is the Head of the Deer-kind, has> 
many things in Common with other Deer 5 in ma- 
