ay near Gcnhantown, 



European Americans, take great pains to find out 

 thefe {tore-holes, whether in trees or in the 

 ground, as all the nuts they contain are choice, 

 and not only quite ripe, but likewifenot pierced 

 by worms. The nuts and acorns which the 

 Dormice, or Mus Cricetus Linn, (lore up in au- 

 tumn, are all in the fame condition. The Swedes 

 relate, that, in the long winter, which happened 

 her in the year 1741, there fell fuch a quantity 

 of fnow, that the fquirrels could not get to their 

 ftore, and many of them were ftarved to death. 



THE damage which thefe animals do in the 

 maize fields, I have already defcribed : they do 

 the more harm, as they do not eat all the corn, 

 but only the inner and fweet part, and as it were 

 take off the hufks. In fpring, towards the end 

 of April, when the oaks were in full flower, I 

 once obferved a number of fquirrels on them, 

 fometimes five, fix, or more in a tree, who bit 

 off the flower-ftalks a little below the flowers, 

 and dropt them on the ground; whether they 

 eat any thing off them, or made ufe of them for 

 fome other purpofe, 1 know not ; but the ground 

 was quite covered with oak flowers, to which 

 part of the ftalk adhered. For this reafon the 

 oaks do not bear fo much fruit by far, to feed 

 hogs and other animals, as they would otherwife 

 do. 



OF all the wild animals in this country, the 

 fquirrels are fome of the eafieft to tame, efpeciaily 

 when they are taken young for that purpofe. I 

 have feen them tamed fo far, that they would 

 follow the boys into the woods, and run about 

 every where, and when tired would fit on their 



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