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and dry situations for their dwellings, from which the water will flow 

 off easily ; and it is my opinion that for drink they subsist entirely on 

 the juices of the roots they eat. I hope, in your anatomical examina- 

 tions, you will hold this prohahility in mind. There is no doubt but 

 water and snakes are their greatest enemies, and that they plug their 

 holes leading to the surface as well against one as the other. 



The one last sent you I had alive, and think I killed him by pour- 

 ing drops of water on his nose, which he took very ungraciously. 

 Also, when I opened him, I found water diffused between the coats of 

 the stomach. 



. He was cut off with a long-bladed spade while throwing out a load of 

 earth, and taken alive. As for trapping, I have had them cover up the 

 trap, bait, and all, with their mounds, too often to expect anything 

 from that process. 



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