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Size and Colour. At certain Seasons of the Year, gTeat Bots 

 or Maggots breed betwixt the Skin and the Flesh, which turns 

 into most beautiful Butterflies, like those in the Deer. They 

 eat much after the same manner as those in Europe do, but 

 I never observed any of them so fat. The Planters fre- 

 quently fire the Marshes and Thickets, by which means they 

 kill abundance of them. The Flesh of these nourishes more 

 than that of the Hare. 



Those of the European Species of Coneys or Rahhets are 

 very scarce in this Province, and are to be met with but in 

 few places, so that it is thought that they are not natives of 

 this Country, but that they have been brought from Europe, 

 to these parts. They Burrow in the Ground (but in two 

 places that I know of) like those with us. These as well as 

 the former breed Maggots in their Testicles and other parts 

 of the Body, which become most beautiful Butter-flies ; they 

 eat after the same manner as those with us, and their Furr 

 is for the same uses, and the parts of this Animal have the 

 same virtues in Physick with the former. 



The Squirrels whereof there are four sorts in this Prov- 

 ince, viz. The Fox-Squirrel, the Gran-Squirrel, the Flying- 

 Squirrel, and the Ground-Squirrel. 



iThe Fox-Squirrel, so call'd, from its being the largest, and 

 smelling like a Fox. It is most commonly larger than a 

 Rahhet and of a gray colour, yet I have seen several Pyed 

 ones, and some white, red and Black. Their chiefest haunts 

 are in Piney Lands where the Almond-pine grows. They 

 feed on pine ]^uts and all other sorts of jSTuts, and Fruits, of 

 which they lay up a sufficient store in hollow Trees for the 

 Winter, during which Season they never appear abroad. 

 They may be made tame, and are very plenty, and good Meat 

 in this Province, but very distructive and pernicious in Corn 



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