326 Notes on certain paris of the State of Ohio. 
to the state of Ohio. Amongst the carniverous animals, we 
have the bear, wolf, panther, wild cat, and fox. Of see fox 
ve two — the red and the gray: the gray 
far the most common. Of those which are partly pool 
rous and partly montane we enumerate the opossum, rac- 
coon, polecat, and mink. The ground hog, or woodchuck, 
and rabbit, are herbiverous. The gray squirrel, the black 
se | and the chipping squirrel, are the only kinds [ have 
red squirrel and flying squirrel oo not common 
re, though T believe they are found on the waters of the 
the mountains. The native rats are black, and 
pins The wharf rat has found his way into the country 
within a few years, and is now common in the neighbourhood 
of the Ohio river. Mice, of the same kind, common to the 
east side of the mountains, are found hare; Beavers. were 
once common here, but the hunters have destroyed them 
long since. A few otters and mink yet remain, and the musk- 
rat is common. Our serpents are, two kinds of rattlesnakes, 
black and spotted; copperhead, satan aa water-adder, 
garter-snake, and two kinds of blac long 
and slim, the other with a ge rin, see hee se the neck. These 
are all harmless, I believe, ae She: 
"Rattlesnakes andc pep were very "abundant in. the 
woods st settlement of the. ae but since 
n suffered to run in the woods, they Ter lave 
near: psig rored the race of snakes. It is said, ‘that the bite 
ofa poisonous snake does no injury to a hog. ‘If this. is the 
fact, | know not how to account for it, unless it be that the 
great quantity of fat with which the cellular membrane is load- 
ed, prevents its absorption into the system, or acts as an anti- 
dote to the poison, inthe same manner that olive oib-siaes: It 
is certain that hogs are fond of this kind of d eat it 
whenever they can catchit. Our tortoises are 
—the se e black tortoise, small brown tortoise with ye 
“spots, the soft-shelled tortoise. The latter kind nage 
‘together in the water, will weigh from six to ten pounds, and 
‘is said to be nearly or quite equal to the sea-turtle, for the 
Li sirds are very common in the woods, and in pleasant 
weather may be seen on old logs, lying basking in the san. 
News are found in our small streams; and in the Ohio an 
animal, between the newt and the aligator, is often taken on 
eek 
the hooks set for fish, in the spring of the year. Itis between 
