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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SHIRTS. 
FOREST SPORTS. 
NL Y two of the eleven noble animals, 
which I have recounted and described 
above, are peculiar, and but four now 
indigenous, to the Eastern States and 
Canada ; although it is certain that 
two at least, if not three, of the others, 
were formerly found to the east of 
the Delaware, and south of the great lakes. 
The Moose and the Cariboo are never found, and probably 
never have existed, far to the westward of the River St. Clair, 
connecting Lakes Huron and Erie, south of the 43d degree of 
north latitude. Within these bounds they still exist, wherever 
the advances of civilization have not banished them to deeper 
northern solitudes. The Common Deer, and the Black Bear 
are still indigenous from the extreme north-east, to the south¬ 
western regions of North America, as were undoubtedly the 
Elk and the Wild Turkey not many years ago. 
With the Moose and Cariboo, I shall therefore commence, in 
order to get through those sports which may yet be enjoyed to 
the eastward, in the first instance, before plunging into the great 
western wilderness. 
The Moose, as we have seen, is a native only of the colder 
and woodland regions of the continent, being a browsing rather 
than a grazing animal,—as his peculiar conformation, the short- 
