2 12 November 1748. 



for feveral days, efpecially when the wea- 

 ther is very rough. During this time 

 they confume the little ftore, which they 

 have brought to their nefts : as foon there- 

 fore as the weather grows milder, they 

 creep out, and dig out part of the ftore 

 which they have laid up in the ground : of 

 this they eat fome on the fpot, and carry 

 the reft into their nefts on the trees. We 

 frequently obferved that in winter, at the 

 eve of a great froft, when there had been 

 fome temperate weather, the fquirrels, a 

 day or two before the froft, ran about the 

 woods in greater numbers than common, 

 partly in order to eat their fill, and partly 

 to ftore their nefts with a new provifion for 

 the enfuing great cold, during which they 

 did not venture to come out, but N lay fnug 

 in their nefts : therefore feeing them run in 

 the woods in greater numbers than ordina- 

 ry, was a fafe prognoftic of an enfuing cold. 

 The bogs which are here droven into the 

 woods, whilft there is yet no fnow in them, 

 often do considerable damage to the poor 

 fquirrels, by rooting up their ftore-holes, 

 and robbing their winter provifions. Both 

 the Indians, and the European Americans, 

 take great pains to find out thefe ftore- 

 holes, whether in trees or in the ground, 

 as all the nuts they contain are choice, and 



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