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Title: Frank Forester's field sports of the United States, and British provinces, of North America.
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858
Subjects: Hunting Game and game-birds
Publisher: New York, : W. A. Townsend
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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the others,were formerly found to the east ofthe Delaware, and south of the great lakes. The Moose and the Cariboo are never found, and probablynever have existed, far to the westward of the River St. Clair,connecting Lakes Huron and Erie, south of the 43d degree ofnorth latitude. Within these bounds they still exist, whereverthe advances of civilization have not banished them to deepernorthern 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 theElk and the Wild Turkey not many years ago. With the Moose and Cariboo, I shall therefore commence, inorder to get through those sports which may yet be enjoyed tothe eastward, in the first instance, before plunging into the greatwestern wilderness. The Moose, as we have seen, is a native only of the colderand woodland regions of the continent, being a browsing ratherthan a grazing animal,—as his pecuhar conformation, the short-
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FOREST SPORTS. 199 nes8 of his nrck, and the leiigtli of his legs, clearly indicate. Onopen plains lie could scarcely exist, and his favoriie haunts—towhich is due his existence at the present moment—are tlie depthsof forests and woodland morasses, which probably never will becleared, owing to the severity of the climate, and the sterilityof the soil. The most southerly and westwaid point, at which this noblespecimen of the Deer tribe is now known to exist, is that singu-lar district, to which I have before alluded, composed entirely ofan aggeries of mountains, rock-ribbed, and forest-girdled, inter-spersed with a jierfect net-work of lakes, rivers, and morasses,lying between Lake Champlain, Lake Ontario, the St. Law-rence, and the Black River. Here it still breeds, and yards in winter; here it is yet killedby the hunters, and by the few Indians who yet linger in thatregion, or visit it from Canada during the season of deep snows,for the purpose; and here it may still be found, es

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