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them dug up with the mofs, (when pitching 
tents in Winter,) frozen as hard as ice; in which 
ftate the legs are as eafily broken off as a pipe- 
ftem, without giving the leaft fenfation to the 
animal; but by wrapping them up in warm 
fkins, and expofing them to a flow fire, they foon 
recover life, and the mutilated animal gains its 
ufual activity; but if they are permitted to freeze 
again, they are paft all recovery, and are never 
more known to come-to life. The fame may be 
faid of the various {pecies of Spiders and all the ¢ i40., ana 
Grub kind, which are very numerous in thofe Ss. 
parts. I have feen thoufands of them dug up 
with the mofs, when we were pitching our tents 
in the Winter ; all of which were invariably en- 
clofed in a thick web, which Nature teaches them 
to {pin on thofe occafions ; yet they were appa- 
rently all frozen as hard as ice. ‘The Spiders, if 
let fall from any height on a ‘hard fubftance, 
would. rebound like a grey pea; and al! the Grub 
kind are fo hard frozen as to be as eafily broken 
as a piece of ice of the fame fize ; yet when ex- 
pofed to a flow heat, even in the depth of Winter, 
they will foon come to life, and in a fhort time 
recover their ufual motions. 
Birds. 
The feathered creation that refort to thofe parts 
in the different feafons are numerous, but fuch 
as 
