. Frank Forester's field sports of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. 804 FRAiNK FORfiSTiiB's FIELD SPORTS, MOOSE AND CARIBOO OR the pursuit of neither of these noble animals, the largest, fleetest, and most wary game on earth, is the assistance of either hound or horse available. The nature of the ground which they inha- bit, and over which they must be pur- sued, render the use of the horse out of _^the question, consisting of the densest and most impemous brakes of the pine, larch, and white cedar for
. Frank Forester's field sports of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. 804 FRAiNK FORfiSTiiB's FIELD SPORTS, MOOSE AND CARIBOO OR the pursuit of neither of these noble animals, the largest, fleetest, and most wary game on earth, is the assistance of either hound or horse available. The nature of the ground which they inha- bit, and over which they must be pur- sued, render the use of the horse out of _^the question, consisting of the densest and most impemous brakes of the pine, larch, and white cedar forests, which cover so large a portion of the districts which they most affect, and being very often interspersed with deep bogs, and insecure morasses, affording foothold to no tread, save that )f the clefl hoof of the ruminating animals. How animals ol ihe bulk and weight of these huge Deer, can force themselves between the stems of the thickset evergreen saplings, among which a man can with difficulty work his way only by slow degrees, is in itself no easy matter to comprehend; but when to size and weight is superadded the vast burthen of ponderous and spreading antlers, which they bear on their heads—in a full grown bull Moose exceeding 50 lbs. weight— and which, one would imagine, must hopelessly entangle them in the brake, it is impossible to account for the ease and celerity with which they will pass through the heaviest growth of forest. The hunter is compelled, therefore, to pursue—when he does pursue—both these giants of the cervine race on foot; and for this reason hounds are rendered as unavailable as horses; since the speed of the animal, when once alarmed, is so great, that it is very questionable whether even in open country, and with mounted hunters, it could be run down, or even run from scent into view, by the fleetest Fox-hounds. When we consider- hw-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enha
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