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NATURAL HISTORY. 
ANIMALS of the DEER KIND. 
THOUGH the hull and flag do not rCf 
lemble each other in fliape and form, yet their 
internal ftriuHiure is very fimilar. All the 
internal difference between them is, that the 
deer has no gall-bladder, while the fpleen is 
proportionally larger, and the kidneys differ- 
ently formed. 
The firfl: animal of this fpecies that feems 
to claim our attention, is the Elk. 
The.EhK, pr FEMALE MOOSE. 
his aniqaal is a native of both the old 
and new continent. In Europe it is cailetl 
the ejk, and in America the moofe deer. It 
i.s .fometinies taken in the foi'clls of Germany 
and Ruflia ; but they are found in great num- 
bers in North America. Of the various ac- 
counts given of this animal, the following is 
eftcemed the moll: authentic. . 
A female Elk, only twelve months old, 
which was in the poffelfion of the late Mar- 
quis of Rockingham, meafured to the top of 
the withei'S fifteen hands; the length, from 
nofe to tail, was {even feet ; it had a fliort 
neck, with a thick ered tfiane, and the body 
wa.s 
