23 NATURAL HISTORY. 

ANIMALS of the DEER KIND, 


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Aruoven the bull and ftag do not refemble 
each other in fhape and form, yet their internal {truc- 
ture is very fimilar. All the internal difference be- 
tween them is, that the deer has no gall bladder, 
while the fpleen is proportionally larger, and the kid- 
neys differently formed. 
‘Lhe firft animal of this fpecies that feems to claim 
our attention, is the ELK, 
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ELK, or FEMALE MOOSE, 
"Turs animal is a native of both the old and new 
continent. In Europe it is called the elk, and in A- 
merica the moofe deer. It is fometimes taken in the 
forefts of Germany and Ruffia; but they are found in 
great numbers in North America. Of the various ac-, 
counts given of this animal, the following is efteemed 
the moft authentic. vv. 5 : 
A female elk, only twelve months old, which was - 
in the poffeflion of the late Marquis of Rockingham, 
meafured to the top of the weathers fifteen hands ; 
the length, from nofe to tail, wasfeven feet : “It ha 
a fhort neck, with a thick erect mane, and the body 
was covered with hoary. black hair. It was brought 
from America, and therefore called a moofe deer, 
As it was fo young, we may conclude, that, in its 
wild and natural ftate, it grows to an amazing height. 
It is afferted by fome, that in America it grows to the 
height of twelve feet. ‘Ihis animal is reported to be 
timorous, ‘gentle and inoftenfive. It fwims and runs 

