MARMOTS. 
MARMOTS OF SWITZERLAND, TARTARY, AND RUSSIA,— 
MARMOTS ?ROM NORTH AMERICA. 
THESE are a very numerous and very in- 
teresting group of animals, embracing from 
the Mouse upwards to the Bear, the whole of 
which, under a general view, have the same 
form and structure of body, the same de- 
scriptions of food, and the same manners, 
movements, and modes of life. All are more 
or less tractable and ingenious, and all pro- 
vide themselves with nests. Most, if not the 
whole, sleep during the winter. 
In the families of this attractive group, 
none are more pleasing in their appearance, 
nor more agreeable in their history. The 
Marmots are a race of fur-clad little animals, 
of about sixteen inches in length, allied, upon 
the one hand, to the Rat, and upon the 
other, to the Squirrel. The Marmots are 
the special inhabitants of countries cold 
mountainous, and wooded They bury them- 
