108 M U S K, 
but burrow, like Water-rats, in banks adjacent to lakes, rivers, and 
ditches *, and often do much damage, by admitting the water 
through the embankments of meadows. They continue in their 
holes, except when they are in the water in fearch of food. They 
make their nefts with fticks, placing a lining of fome foft materials 
within t. Charlevoix { adds, that they fometimes make ufe of a 
hollow tree for their refidence. 
When taken young, they are capable of being tamed; are very 
playful and inoffenfive, and never bite. 
® Kalm, ii. 56, and Charlevoix. + Kali, ii. 58. t v. 158.. 
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