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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
tail not more than four inches in length; the legs, though very long, are remarkably clean and firm. The whole body, weighing from seven to twelve hundred pounds, is covered with hair of a grayish brown, coarse and angular, breaking if bent. Its movements are rather heavy; it does not gallop, but shuffles or ambles along, its joints cracking at every step, with a sound heard at some distance. It might seem from this description that the moose was an uncouth and unsightly animal, yet when seen dashing through its native forests it is said to produce on the mind of the beholder a feeling of beauty and sublimity. It is chiefly distinguished for its wide-spreading palmated horns, entirely webbed, like the foot of a duck. They are of great size, being two or three feet long, and sometimes four or five in the largest, weighing fifty or sixty pounds.
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