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have deciduous leaves, and they covered the 

 ground in the woods fix inches deep. The great 

 quantity of leaves which drop annually, would 

 neceflarily feem to encreafe the upper black 

 mould greatly. However, it is not above three 

 or four inches thick in the woods, and under it 

 lays a brick -coloured clay, mixed with a fand of 

 the fame colour. It is remarkable, that a foil 

 which, in all probability, has not been ftirred, 

 fhould be covered with fo little black mould : 

 but I fliall fpeakof this in the fequel. 



Nov. 1 4th. THE Squirrels, which run about 

 plentifully in the woods, are of different fpecies ; 

 I here intend to defcribe the moft common forts 

 more accurately. 



THE grey Squirrels are very plentiful in Pen- 

 fyfaania, and in the other provinces of North 

 America. Their fhape correfponds with that of 

 our Sweidifh fquirrel ; but they differ from them 

 by keeping their grey colour all the year long, 

 and in iize being fomething bigger. The woods 

 in all thefe provinces, and chiefly in Penfylvdnia, 

 confift of trees with deciduous leaves, and in 

 fuch thefe fquirrels like to live. Ray, in his 

 Synohjis Quadrupedwn, p. 215, and Gate/by, in his 

 Natural Hijiory of Carolina > Vol. 2, p. 74, tab. 

 74, call it the Virginian greater grey Squirrel ; 

 and the latter has added a figure after life. The 

 Swedes call it grao Ickorn, which is the fame as 

 the Etogii/b, grey Squirrel. Their nefts are-corn-' 

 inonly in hollow trees, and are made of mofs, 

 ~4lraw, and other foft things : their food is chiefly 

 nuts; as hazel nuts, chinquapins, chefnuts, 

 walnuts, hiccory nuts, and the acorns of the 



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