Penfyfoania? near Germantonvn. 25 L 



by a man who had looked over the accounts him- 

 felf. 



MANY people, efpecially young men, left all 

 other employment, and went into the woods to 

 {hoot fquirrels ; but the government, having ex- 

 perienced how much three pence per head took 

 out of the treafury, fettled half that fum upon 

 each fquirrel's head. 



FLYING SQJJIRRELS are a peculiar kind, 

 which feem to be the fame with thofe which in- 

 habit Finland, and which Dr. Linnceus, in his 

 Fauna Svecica, N 3?, calls Sciurus volant. The 

 American flying fquirrel at the utmoft is only a 

 variety of that which we have in Finland. Catef- 

 by y in his Natural Hijiory of Carolina, Vol. 2, p. 

 76, 77, has defcribed it, and tab. 76, 77, drawn 

 it after life. He likewife calls it Sciurus volant. 

 Edwards in his Natural Eiftory of Birds repre- 

 fents it, t. 191. They are met with in the 

 woods, but not very frequently. They are fcarce 

 ever feen in the day-time, unlefs they are forced 

 out by men who have difcovered their nefts : for 

 they fleep in the day-time, but as foon as it grows 

 dark, they come out and run about almofl all 

 night. They live in hollow trees, and by cut- 

 ting one down, feven or more flying fquirrels are 

 frequently found in it. By the additional Ikin 

 with which Providence has provided them on 

 both fides, they can fly from one tree to another. 

 They expand their fkins like wings, and contract 

 them again as foon as they can get hold of the 

 oppofite tree. Some people fay that they fly in 

 a horizontal line; but others afferted that they 

 firft went a little downwards, and then rofe up 

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