. Frank Forester's field sports of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. FRANK FOKESTER S FIELD SPORTS. mountains, the fart of their existence there in c^roiat ahuniiance is amply settled by the testimony of De Laot, on the iiuthority of Gomara, 1. 6., c. 17, and of Purchas, p, 778. Its limits to the north ai"e not easier to determine. In Ilakluyt's collection, we find in the account of Sir Humphrey Gillu'rt's voyages, which commenced in , that there arr said to he in the Lsland of Newfoundland, ' Buttoldes
. Frank Forester's field sports of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. FRANK FOKESTER S FIELD SPORTS. mountains, the fart of their existence there in c^roiat ahuniiance is amply settled by the testimony of De Laot, on the iiuthority of Gomara, 1. 6., c. 17, and of Purchas, p, 778. Its limits to the north ai"e not easier to determine. In Ilakluyt's collection, we find in the account of Sir Humphrey Gillu'rt's voyages, which commenced in , that there arr said to he in the Lsland of Newfoundland, ' Buttoldes, or a Insist, it secmeth by the tract and foote, very large in the manner of an Oxe.' It may, however, be questioned, whether these were not Musk Oxen, instead of the common Buffalo, or l?ison, of our prairies. Wc. have no authority of any weight which warrants us in admitting that the Bufl'alo existed north of Lakes Ontario, Erie, &'c., and cast of Lake Superior. From what we know of the country between Nelson's River, Hudson's Bay, and the lower lakes, iiichuling New South Wales and Upper Canada, we are inclined to believe the Buffalo never abounded there, if indeed any were ever found north of the lakes. But west of Lake Winnepeck, we know that they are found as far north as the G2d degree of north latitude. Captain Franklin's party killed one on Salt River, about the GOth degree. Probably they are found all over the prairies, which are bounded on the north by a line, commencing at the point at which the 62d degree meets the base of llu? Rocky Mountains, and running in a south-easterly direction, to the southern extremity of Lake Winnepeck, which is very little north of the 50th degree. On the Saskatchewan, Buffalo aii^ very abuTidant. It may be proper to mention here, that the small white Buffalo, of which Mackenzie makes fre- quent mention, on the authority of the Indians, who told him that they lived in the mountains, is probably not the Bison ; for Lewis and Clarke
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