ANIMALS OF NORTH AMERICA. 
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pasture appear so disadvantageous, are here of the greatest use 
in enabling it to crop the buds and young twigs of the birch, 
maple, or poplar ; or enabling it to browse on aquatic 
plants, inaccessible to other animals. In the summer, it 
frequents swampy or low grounds, near the margins of lakes 
and rivers, through Avhich it delights to swim, as this frees it 
from the annoyance of insects. At this season it regularly 
visits the same place to drink, of which circumstance the 
Indian hunter takes advantage, by lying in ambush. 
In Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, it is generally hunted 
in the month of March, when the snow is deep, and sufficiently 
crusted with ice to bear the weight of a dog, but not that 
of a Moose. -Five or six men provided with knapsacks, con- 
taining food for as many days, and all necessary implements 
