. Frank Forester's field sports of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. 108 FRANK forester's FIELD Sl-ORTS. FOREST WO only 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 t
. Frank Forester's field sports of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. 108 FRANK forester's FIELD Sl-ORTS. FOREST WO only 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 Eiie, 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 browsino- rather than a grazing animal,—as his peculiar conformation, the short-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858. New York : Stringer & Townsend
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