io6 RABBET. Class I. 



mals are Lincoln/hire^ Norfolk^ and Cambridge/hire, 

 Methold^ in the laft county, is famous for the befl 

 fort for the table : the foil there is fandy, and full 

 of mofTes and the Carex grafs. Rabbets fwarm in 

 the ifles of Orkney^ where their fkins form a confi- 

 derable article of commerce. Excepting otters, 

 brown rats, common mice, and fhrews, no other 

 quadrupeds are found there. The rabbets of 

 thofe ides are in general grey, thole which inhabit 

 the hills, grow hoary in winter. 



Formerly the filver- haired rabbets were in great 

 elleem for lining of cloaths, and their fkins fold at 

 three fhillings a piece*; but fince the introdudion 

 of the more elegant furs, the price is fallen to fix- 

 pence each. The Sunk JJland-\ in the Humher was 

 once famous for a moufe- coloured fpecies, now ex- 

 tirpated by reafon of the injury it did to the banks 

 by burrowing. 



* Hart lib's Legacy, f Ph, Trans. No. 361. 



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