100 BRITISH . to nearly the breadth of a common shovel; they shed them annually, yet their texture is very hard, and their thickness at the root as large as a man's wrist. Their flesh is esteemed a great delicacy ; the fat of the intestines hard, that of the outside soft. In this respect they differ from the common deer, whose external fat is hard ; neither are they grega¬ rious, like the rest of the deer species. Their livers are never sound, nor have they any gall. Their pace is an awkward trot, which the length of their legs enables them to perform with considerable swiftness; but in a country free of wood, they would soon be overtaken hy horsemen. They may soon be domestica¬ ted, and they will become more tame than sheep. In summer they frequent the banks of rivers and lakes, in order probably to get into the water occasionally, to avoid the multitudes of mosquitoes and other flies that annoy them. They are often killed by the In¬ dians in the water, and, when pursued in this manner, they make no resistance ; and the young ones are so simple as to allow an Indian to paddle his canoe alongside of them, and take hold of their heads, the poor harmless animal swimming along to the shore, apparently as contented as if at the side of its dam. The common deer are much more dangerous. The hide of the moose is dressed into a very beautiful and soft skin, by the Indians. The common deer are numerous in the western and northern territories. Towards, and within, the arctic regions, they are much smaller than to the southward, but their flesh is more delicate. Their