£792. en rearing timber. Ii 
their mouths with rye, they chance to meet with 
wheat, they discharge the one that they may secure 
the other. pa 
These animals bite very hard, and are so extremely 
wild that they are tamed with difficulty. Its fkin is 
of little value. Gats search for, and devour these 
like other vermin. 
LETTER FROM ARCTICUS.. 
On rearing timber trees. 
SIR, To the Editor of the Bee. 
I'concraTuLATE both you and your subscribers, on- 
the increasing interest of your fourth volume, which 
I have read with increasing pleasure; and think you - 
‘may now safely. adopt as a.motto for the Bee, the 
chorus of the French revolution song, (fa tra, ca tra.) . 
Nay, I will venture to predict, that if both go on as. 
they do, it will in time be more ‘applicable to. the 
one than to the other. 
However, there is one paper in the plewsinigs: vo= 
lume, which I must take the liberty of smiling at 
in my northern situation ; I mean a grave difsertation 
p- 246, to convince the good lazy people of Scotland © 
of the practicability of raising timber in their country, 
whilst we, in the latitude of sixty, surrounded with 
-permanent frost and snow, which cover the earth — 
for six months of the year, at least, and takes ano- 
ther to thaw, see the country around us covered 
with spontaneous forests, and the continual labour of 
the Rufsian boor, to dispute the soil with this most 
predominant part of vegetation. ; 
