4 5 
DEER. 
from the infertion to the tips, 5 feet 5 inchesthe 
brow antlers 11 inches; the broadeft part of the 
palm, 18 ♦, diftance between tip and tip, 7 feet 9: but 
thefe are fmall in comparifon of others that have 
been found in the fame kingdom. Mr. Wright , in 
his Louthiana , tab. xxii. Book III. gives the figure 
of one that was eight feet long, and fourteen be* 
tween point and point. Thefe horns are frequent 
in our Mufeums , and at gentlemen’s houfes in Ire¬ 
land : but the Zoologift is ftill at a lofs for the re¬ 
cent animal. I have been informed by a gentleman 
long refident in Hudfon’s Bay , that the India?is fpeak 
of a beaft of the Moofe kind *, but far fuperior in 
fize to the common one, which they fay is found 
7 or 800 miles S. W. of York Fort , If fuch an 
animal exifts, with horns of the dimenfions jijflt 
mentioned, and of proportionable dimenfions in 
other parts, there is a chance of feeing Jojfelyn’s 
account verified: for if our largeft elks, of feventeen 
hands high carry horns of fcarce three feet in length, 
we may very well allow the animal to be thirty^ 
three hands high which is to fupport horns of 3 or 
400 lb. weight. 
• Called by the lndians 9 Wejhejfru, 
Tarandus f 
