Class I. MOLE. 13X 



Theft gifts may with reafon be faid to compenfate 



the dcfed of fight, as they fupply in this animal 



all its want?, and ail the purpoics of that fcnfe. 



Thus amply fupplied as it is, with every necefiary 



accommodation of life; we muft avoid affcnting 



to an obfervation of a mod rcfpedlable writer, and 



only refer the reader to the note, where he may find 



the very words of that author •, and compare them 



with thofe of our illuftrious countryman, Mr. i?4y'^. 



It is fuppofed that the verdant circles fo often 

 feen in grafs grounds, called by country people 

 fairy rings, are owing to the operations of thefe 

 animals, who at certain feafons perform their bur^ 

 rowings by circumgyrations, which loofening the foil, 

 aives the furface a greater fertility and ranknefs of 

 grafs than the other parts within or without the ring. 



The mole breeds in the fpring, and brings four or 

 five young at a time : it makes its ned of mofs, and 

 that always under the largeft hillock, a little below 



* La taupe fans etre aveugle, a les yeux fi petits fi cou- 

 verts, qu'elle ne peut faire grand ufage du fens de la vue i 

 en dedomjnagement la nature lui a donne a^ep tnagnijicence V ufage 

 dujixieme fens^ &c. 



Mr. Ray makes the latter obfervation ; but forms from it 

 a conclufion much more folid and moral. Teftes maximosy 

 parafiatas ampUJJimas, novum corpus feminak ah his diver fum et 



ftp ar at urn penem eti am facile omnium, ni fallor, animalium 



longijjimum : ex quibus colligere eft maximam pro; reliquis omnihus 

 animalibus voluptatem in coitu hoc ahjeaum et vile animahulum, 

 percipere, ut haheant quod ipft invideant, qui in hoc fupre?nas vitcff 

 fu^ delicias collocant, Raii/yn.quad, 7.y% 2 39' 



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