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his Moose. It had a broken jaw, was very lean, and was un- 
questionably the animal wounded by Mr. Tait. 
In Forest and Stream for April 2d, 1874 (p. 116), Mr. Edw. 
Clarence Smith states that a cow Moose was killed on Marion 
River (East Inlet of Raquette Lake) during the summer of 1861. 
He says that it was shot by a guide by the name of Palmer from 
Long Lake, while feeding upon lily-pads, about three o’clock in 
the afternoon ; and that “ the persons present were Isaac Gerhart, 
lawyer; Mr. Burgin, Rev. Augustus Smith, now settled in West 
Philadelphia, and the undersigned, all residents of Philadelphia.” 
In response to interrogations, Mr. Smith writes me that this Moose 
was killed in the month of August. Mr. Smith had also the kind- 
ness to address a letter of inquiry, in my behalf, to Isaac Gerhart, 
Esq., a member of the party. Mr. Gerhart’s reply is so full of in- 
teresting details that I make no apology for publishing the greater 
part of it verbatim. He writes : “I should say the Moose was 
shot about the end of the second week in August, 1861, at the 
mouth of the East Inlet of Raquette Lake, on whose shore, about 
four miles distant, we then had a camp. We had been up this 
inlet, your correspondent calls it Marion River — a name I cannot 
recall, — for a day’s trout fishing. You and your brother | Rev. H. 
Augustus Smith] and guide were in one boat ; Burgin, a guide, 
and I in another. We, as usual, ‘ tho’ on fishing bent,’ still had 
our trusty guns, lest some chance game should find us unprepared. 
At its mouth the Inlet was bordered on either hand by a thickly 
wooded shore, terminating on the south side in a short promontory, 
round the end of which a sloping shore curved off to the southwest. 
Off this sloping shore grew in the water a border of lily-pads, 
perhaps a hundred feet wide, and about half as far from the edge 
of the water the shore became bold and thickly wooded. We were 
rowing steadily down, the bottoms of our boats covered with finny 
spoils. I was in the bow of the foremost boat, when, as we came 
abreast of the end of the promontory, I caught sight of the monster 
