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(lead of ftones make ule of two logs of wood*. 

 The ftoat is fometimes found white in Great-Britain^ 

 but not frequently : and then it is called a white 

 weefel. That animal is alfo found white ; but may- 

 be eafily diftinguifhed from the other in the ermine 

 Hate, by the tail, which in the weefel is of a light 

 tawny brown. With us the former is obferved to 

 besin to change its color from brown to Vv^hite in 

 November, and to begin to refume the brown the 

 beginning of March. 



The natural hiftory of this creature is much the 

 fame with that of the weefel, its food being birds, 

 rabbets, mice, <Jc. its agilitythe fame, and its fcent 

 equally fetid : it is much more common in England 

 than that animal. 



* Oeu'vres de Mattpertius, iii, 187. 



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