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that elk have been seen as far south as the Ohio, and as far north as the Mackenzie 
River. Writing in the year 1865, Mr. J. G. Lockhart states that elk were then 
common over the whole of British America as far north as the barren grounds, 
although absent from particular localities. Thus they were especially abundant 
on the west side of the Rocky Mountains, and continued so to Behring Strait, 
but were unknown on the shores of Hudson Bay in the neighbourhood of York 
a family OF elk nat. size.) 
Factory. Although specially protected in Ontario, the elk is, however, now 
rapidly disappearing from the forests of North America; and this is not to be 
wondered at, when we learn that some years ago several hundreds of these animals 
were shot on one occasion in New Brunswick merely for the sake of their hides; 
their carcases being left to rot on the ground. Elk are still comparatively 
common in Alaska, but have more or less completely disappeared from certain 
districts where they were formerly abundant. As far back as 1881, Mr. Caton 
wrote, that “they have probably entirely ceased their visits to Newfoundland; but 
