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V ERTEBRATA. 



HAUE AM) RABBITS. 



very large one on the Isle of Man, where individuals have been taken that weighed twelve pounds. 

 In England examples occur of bares weighing from ten to eleven pounds; but from some of H»e< 

 ri<'h districts in the east of England hares of much greater weight are frequently sent to the Lon- 

 don markets, some weighing as much as fourteen and fifteen pounds. 



The kind provisions of nature for the preservation of tins raee of animals are numerous, and^ 

 calculated to command our admiration: they also afford a striking proof, among thousands- 



