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ter has little or nothing left. They handle the 

 maize ftores full as roughly as the apples. But 

 the cats a-re their great enemies, who devour 

 them and bring them home to their young ones : 

 their flefh is not eaten by men, and their fkin is 

 not made ufe of. 



OF all the fquirrels in the country, thefe arc 

 the moft difficult to be tamed; for, though they 

 be caught very young, yet it is dangerous to touch 

 them with naked hands, as they bite very {harp 

 when one is not aware of them. Many boys, 

 who had loft a deal of time in trying to tame 

 thefe fquirrels, owned that they knew of no art 

 to make them quite tame ; at leaft they are never 

 fo far tamed as the other fpecies. In order to do 

 any thing towards taming them, they muft be 

 caught when they are very fmall. Some people 

 kept them in that ftate in a cage, becaufe they 

 looked very pretty. 



I SHALL take another opportunity of fpeaking 

 of the black and ferruginous fquirrels, which 

 likewife inhabit this country. 



Nov. J 5th. IN the morning I returned toP/6/- 

 ladelphia. Mr. Cock told me to-day, and on forne 

 other occafions afterwards, an accident which hap- 

 pened to him, and which feemed greatly to con- 

 firm a peculiar fign of an imminent hurricane. 

 He failed to the Weft Indies in a fmall yacht, and 

 had an old man on board, who had for a confidera- 

 ble time failed in this fea. The old man founding 

 the depth, called to the mate to tell Mr. Cock to 

 launch the boats immediately, and to put a fuf- 

 ficient number of men into them, in brder to 

 tow the yacht during the calm, that they might 



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