THE ELK. 
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having very broad, heavy horns, sometiffl®® 
weighing not less than fifty pounds : the 
male is smaller and without horns. The 
sometimes attains the height of seventeen’ 
hands and even more ; and one shot man/ 
years ago in Sweden weighed one thousaO*^ 
two hundred pounds. The head is loH^ 
and narrow, and the neck, short and strong, 
well adapted to support the heavy burde’' 
which it has to bear. The swollen appeal" 
ance of the face about the nostrils, the thic^ 
neck, sunken eye, contracted forehead, 
nostrils, square, overhanging lip, long asiniP^ 
ears, and shaggy throat, are in this anino^^ 
great drawbacks from those elegant propo’^" 
tions which are so much admired in the 
of the deer tribe. In his native forests, 
ever, and in his unreclaimed state, no 
druped has a more majestic aspect than 
elk, on account of his size, the beauty 
horns, the compactness of his round 
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