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'770- fued, they take refuse ; and the bricks are heated, and put 



October. . , . • , r , , 



into the cavities, in order to imoke them out. 



I mud refer the Reader for an account of the ifatis *, or 

 arctic fox, to Mr. Pennant's Arctic Zoology, as I never 

 faw either the animal or the fkin, which I underfland 

 they fet no value upon. The varying hare -f is alfo 

 neglected on the fame account. They are in great abund- 

 ance ; and, as is always the cafe with this fpecies, turn 

 quite white during the winter. Our mooting parties faw 

 feveral of this colour the beginning of May, but found them 

 fo fhy, that they were not able to get within gun-fhot. 



The mountain-rat, or earlefs marmot J, is a beautiful little 

 animal, coniiderably fmaller than a fquirrel, and, like it, 

 feeds upon roots, berries, the cedar-apple, &c. which it 

 eats fitting upon its hind-legs, and holding them up to its 

 mouth with the paws. Its fkin is much valued by the Kamt- 

 fchadales, is both warm and light, and of a bright mining 

 colour, forming, like the plumage of fome birds, various 

 colours when viewed in different lights. 



The float, or ermine §, is here held in no eflimation, and, 

 confequcntly, never engages the attention of the hunters, 

 becaufe, as I have heard, its fur is of an ordinary kind. I 

 faw many of thefe little animals running about ; and we 

 bought feveral of their fkins, which were of a bad white, 

 and of a dirty yellow toward the belly. The common 

 weafel || is alfo neglected, and for the fame rcafon. 



On the contrary, the fkin of the glutton, or wolverene 11, 

 is here in the higheft repute j infomuch, that a Kamtfcha- 



* Cnnis cafopus. + Lepus timi/lus. % Mus citellus. 



§ Mujlcla erminia. || Mufitla mvabs. f l/rfus lufcus. 



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