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MAMMALIA. 
In July of the same year (1856) Ed. Arnold killed a Moose at 
Nick’s Lake ; and in the following spring a man named Baker 
killed another in the same vicinity. 
One evening during the summer of 1858 a Moose strayed into 
the Wood’s garden at Raquette Lake, but was not shot. 
The Hon. Horatio Seymour, ex-Governor of the State of New 
York, killed a huge bull Moose in the forest North of Joe’s Lake. 
Its head and horns may now be seen at his farm in Deerfield, N. Y. 
The Governor writes me : “It was a very large animal and was 
disposed to charge upon our party ; but for our dog it might have 
made us trouble. The snow was very deep and covered with a 
crust. The dog could run upon this while the Moose sunk through 
it. This enabled the dog to worry the animal and turn its atten- 
tion away from our party.” He does not remember the year in 
which it was killed. 
In july, 1861, the artist Mr. A. L. Tait, and Mr. James B. Blos- 
som, both of New York, were camped on Constable Point, Raquette 
Lake. One night about the middle of the month, while floating 
on Marion River, Mr. Tait wounded a Moose, but did not kill it. 
On the 25th of the month, about four o’clock in the afternoon, 
Mr. Blossom shot and killed a dry cow Moose on South Inlet. 
The measurements of this animal, taken by Mr. Blossom at the 
time and on the spot, are : 
Length, 
Height (at shoulder), 
Head, 
Ears, 
Girth, 
Lore leg, 
Hind leg (hip bone to hoof), 
7 feet, 1 inch. 
6 feet, 1 inch. 
2 feet, 2 inches. 
1 foot. 
5 feet, 4 inches. 
3 feet, ^5 inches. 
5 feet, 5 inches. 
Early in August of the same year (1861) the hunter William 
Wood killed a bull calf near the place where Mr. Tait had wounded 
