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Hoes are at prefent found fcarcely any where but in the foreft of t?. 



Smalandy and that but rarely. The female brings only two at a time : 

 the buck will defend itfelf with courage againft the dogs, when driven 

 to extremity. They never malce a ring when they are hunted, but 

 run ftrait forward, two or three Swedijh miles, or twelve or 

 eighteen Englijh ; and then return along their former track : but fo 

 fatigued as feldom to efcape. — Mr. Oedman. 



Mr. Hutchins was prefented, by the 14^eahipouk Indians, with a Deer 

 four feet eight inches long, and three feet two high. It was entirely 

 white, except the back, which was inottled with brown. The fur was 

 ihort aiid fine, like that of the Ermine. The Indians, in their manner 

 of expreffion, faid it came from a place where there was little or no 

 tlay. — P. 



In many parts oi Sweden the number of Wolves has been confider- .^g - 



ably diminillied by placing poifoned carcafes in their way: but in 

 other places rhey are found in great multitudes. Hunger fometimes 

 compels them to eat lichens ; thofe vegetables were found in the body 

 t)f one killed by a foldier, but it was fo weak, that it could fcarcely 

 move. It probably had fed on the lichen vulpnus, which is a known 

 poifon to thefe animals. 



Madnefs, in certain years, is very apt to feize the Wolf. The con- 

 fequences are often very melancholy. JVIad Wolves will bite Hogs and ' 

 Dogs, and the laft again, the human fpecies. In a fingle parifh four*" 

 ■teen perfons were viftims to this dreadful malady. The fymptoms 

 •are the fame with thofe attendant on the bite of a mad dog. Fury 

 fparkles in their eyes ; a glutinous faliva diftils from their mouths j 

 they carry their tails low, and bite indifferently men and beafts. It is 

 remarkable that this difeafe happens in the depth of winter^ fo can 

 aever be attributed to the rage of the dog-days. 



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