327 
- , . Feet Inches. 
The beam of each horn, at its root, in circumference. . D 0 11 
The length of the head, from the back of the skull to 
the extremity of the upper jaw-bone NO 2 0 
The breadth of the skull PQ 1 0 
A similar pair, found ten feet under ground, in the County of Clare, 
was presented to Charles the Second, and placed in the horn-gallery, 
Hampton -court, but was afterwards removed into the guard-room of 
the same palace. 
At Bally ward, near Ballyshannan ; at Turvy, eight miles from Dub- 
lin ; and at Portumery, near the River Shannon, in the county of Gal- 
way; similar horns have been found. In the common-hall of the Bishop 
of Armagh’s house, in Dublin, was a forehead, with two amazing large 
beams of a pair of this kind of horns, which, from the magnitude of the 
beams, must have much exceeded in size those of which the dimensions 
are given above. Dr. Molyneux states, that in the last twenty years, 
thirty pair of these horns had been dug up by accident in this country: 
the observations, also, of several other persons, prove the great fre- 
quency with which these remains have been found in Ireland. 
Various opinions have been entertained respecting this animal and 
its existing prototype, This, however, does not appear to have been 
yet discovered ; and these remains may, I believe, be regarded as 
having belonged to an animal now extinct. 
Dr. Molyneux, in the paper above referred to, in confirmation of 
his opinion that these are not the horns of the elk, observes, that the 
elk’s horns “ are much smaller, and quite of another shape and make ; 
not palmated, or broad at the end furthest from the head, as ours ; but, 
on the contrary, broader towards the head, and growing still narrower 
towards the tips’ end and concludes with saying, “ that it can only 
answer to that lofty-horned beast in the West Indies, called a moose. 
Mr. Samuel Dale, in the thirty-ninth volume of the Philosophical 
Transactions, gives a description of the moose-deer of New England ; 
