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the Indian Archipelago; which are equally dissimilar 

 with respect to climate and productions. In Europe, 

 the common Flying Squirrel inhabits the dense 

 and gloomy pine-woods of Poland and Russia, 

 passing its hermit's life in hollow trees, and feeding 

 on cones and nuts, following, too, the range of the 

 vast pine forests that extend throughout the high 

 latitudes of Asia; and it has, till lately, heen undis- 

 tinguished from a nearly allied species found in the 

 northern regions of America. But in the new 

 world, its place is abundantly supplied by three 

 well-known species; first, the Rocky-mountain Fly- 

 ing Squirrel, which often startles the traveller with 

 its bounding leaps; secondly, the Severn River, or 

 greater Flying Squirrel; and, thirdly, the Assepan, 

 which is common in the United States and Canada ; 

 in New England also, amid those deeply wooded 

 districts, which so vividly recall to mind the graphic 

 description of the muse of Hemans. 



The breaking waves dash'd high, on a stern and rock- 

 bound coast, 



And the woods against a stormy sky, their giant branches 

 toss'd, 



And the heavy night hung dark, the hills and waters 

 o'er, 



When a band of exiles moor'd their bark, on the wild 

 New England shore. 



Not as the conqueror comes, they, the true-hearted came, 

 Not with the roll of the stirring drum, or the trumpet 



that sings of fame, 



Not as the flying come, in silence and in fear. 

 They shook the depths of the forest gloom, with their 



hymns of lofty cheer. 



