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my friends there. Mr. Smith had got some 

 imported rabbits of the warren kind, from 

 England, with an intention to make a war- 

 ren ; but this will not answer in any part 

 of America that I have seen, for the follow- 

 ing reasons : First, There is no sod to 

 make banks; therefore the fence must be all 

 paled to keep them in, which is an enor- 

 mous expence. Secondly, There being no 

 sod, they cannot burrow ; for if they were 

 to scratch holes as they do in England, the 

 frost in the winter and the rain in summer 

 would break down all the earth upon them. 

 As a proof of this, even the fox has no bur- 

 row in America: they get into hollow trees; 

 and the sportsmen are obliged to buy the 

 foxes at five or six dollars each, to hunt, from 

 men who catch them for that purpose, as 

 they seldom or never lie in cover as they do 

 in England. The rabbits will not answer, 

 for a further reason : there being very little 

 or no grass for them in the summer, and the 

 winter is so severe they would not pay for 

 the food they would eat. The first winter 



