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2. Tlie rusty-coloured kind, with grey legs, 



sells for sixty dollars. 

 S. The cross foxes skins, black over the 



shoulders, loins and backbone, sell for 



three or four plates (rather more than 



as many shillings sterling). 



4. Blue foxes are worth from six to ten 

 dollars. 



5. Red foxes, which are of a yellowish 

 hue, and 



6. White ones, fetch but three dollars each. 

 The vSting-gnat {Culex pulicaris) is a 



very minute insect, much the smallest of 

 its genus, being about the size of a large 

 flea, of a greyish or clouded white. Its 

 sting is very severe, and leaves a blackish 

 spot as large as that caused by a flea-bite. 

 The wings of this species lie one over the 

 other, as in (C. reptans) the kind already 

 mentioned, p. 209- 



In this part of the country, as in Umoean 

 Lapmark, are many elevated fields of 

 barren sand adjoimng to the river, and 

 sloping towards it, each of them divided 



