NORTHERN OCEAN. 
‘of the hair they may be faid to change the moufe 
from white to a faint brown. Atthat time I had 
an excellent microfcope, and endeavoured to ex- 
amine them, and to afcertain their form, but the 
weather was fo exceedingly cold, that the glaffes 
became damp with the moifture of my breath be- 
fore i could get a fingle fight. The hind-feet of 
thefe Mice are exactly like thofe of a Bear, and the 
fore-feet are armed witha horny fubftance, (that 
I never faw in any other fpecies of the Moufe,) 
which is wonderfully adapted for {craping away 
the ground where they wifh to take up their 
abode. ‘hey are plentiful on fome of the ftony 
ridges near Churchill Factory, but never approach 
the houfe, or any of the out-oflices. From ap- 
pearances they are very local, and feldom ftray 
far from their habitations even in fummer, and in 
Winter they are feldom feen on the furface of the 
fnow; a great proof of their being provident in 
Summer to lay by a ftock for that feafon. 
Pinnated Quadrupeds. 
With refpect to the Pinnated Quadrupeds with 
fin-like feet, there are but few fpecies in Hud- 
fon’s Bay. ‘The Walrus, or Sea-Horfe, and Seals, 
are the only ones that I know. 
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’ The Watrus are numerous about Merry and The wai. 
Jones’s Iflands, but more fo on a {mall ifland call-* 
ed Sea-Horfe Ifland, that lies in the fair way go- 
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