NORTHERN OCEAN. 
| Foxes crofs the river, and direct their courfe to 
the Southward, and in fome years aflemble in 
confiderable numbers at York Fort and Severn 
River. Whether they are all killed, or what be- 
comes of thofe which efcape, is very uncertain ; 
but it is well known that none of them ever mi- 
grate againto the Northward. Befides taking a 
trap fo freely, they are otherwife fo fimple, that I 
have feen them fhot off-hand while feeding, the 
fame as {parrows in a heap of chaff, fometimes 
two or three atafhot. This fport is always moft 
fuccefsful in moon-light nights; for in the day- 
time they generally keep in their holes among 
the rocks, and under the hollow ice at high-wa- 
ter-mark. 
Thefe animals will prey on each other as readi- 
ly as on any other animals they find dead ina 
trap, or wounded by gun; which renders them 
fo deftructive, that I have known upwards of one 
hundred and twenty Foxes of different colours 
eaten, and deftroyed in their traps by their com- 
trades in the courfe of one Winter, within half a 
mile of the Fort. 
The Naturalifts feem ftill at a lofs to know their 
breeding-places, which are doubtlefs in every part 
of the coaft they frequent. Several of them 
breed near Churchill, and I have feen them in 
confiderable numbers all along the Weft coaft of 
Hudfon’s Bay, particularily at Cape Efquimaux, 
Navel’s Bay, and Whale Cove, alfo on Marble 
Ifland; fo that with fome degree of confidence 
we 
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