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not aware of them. Many boys, who had 

 loft a deal of time in trying to tame thefe 

 fquirrels, owned that they knew of no art 

 to make them quite tame j at leaft they are 

 never fo far tamed as the other fpecies. In 

 order to do any thing towards taming them 

 they muft be caught when they are very 

 fmall. Some people kept them in that ftate 

 in a cage, becauie they looked very pretty. 



I shall take an other opportunity of 

 fpeaking of the black and ferruginous fquir- 

 rels, which likewife inhabit this country. 



November the 15th. In the morning I 

 returned to Philadelphia. Mr. Cock told 

 me to day, and on fome other occaiions af- 

 terwards, an accident which happed to him, 

 and which ieemed greatly to confirm a pe- 

 culiar fign of an imminent hurricane. He 

 failed to the Weft Indies in a fmall yacht, 

 and had an old man on board, who had for 

 a conliderable time failed in this fea. The 

 old man founding the depth, called to the 

 mate to tell Mr. Cock to launch the boats 

 immediately, and to put a fufficient num- 

 ber of men into them, in order to tow the 

 yacht during the calm, that they might 

 reach the ifland before them, as foon as 

 poflible, as within twenty-four hours there 

 would be a ftrong hurricane. Mr. Cock 

 afked him what reafons he had to think fo, 



the 



