A beast, the lusetan or ounce?

Fri Jul 14 20:16:45 UTC 2006

New England.  Daniel Neal's history of the same.  Context won't
help--it's merely a list of the names of "beasts".  (Although the
1747 edition has 3 or 4 pages on the moose!)

Joel

At 7/14/2006 03:35 PM, you wrote:
>Quoting "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>:
>
>>What word today is lusetan, as in "the beasts of the country are
>>bears, lusetans or ounces [etc.]", from 1720?
>
>What country? Full sentence or context?
>
>Stephen Goranson
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