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DISEASES 



Sect^XIV. 4.3, 



bo 



which they are for a fe 



permitted to eat unmolefted 



d finally to watch them by moonlight, the infide of the box being 



P 



ted 



d, when many of them 



feen, to let d 



d ; by which contrivance fixty of them were taken at once. 

 3. Moles, as well as rats, have occafionaliy increafed fo greatly 



umbers as 



to much injure the agricultor ; they perforate th 



near 



furface, and 



faid never to drink, but to feed on th 



of vegetable, as well as on fubterraneous infeds; and thoiigh 



& 



they are believed never to drink, yet they have been feen occafionaliy 



fwim 



hich an ocular proof 



lakes of water to the iflands which they furround 



f 



Society, Vol. Ill 



797 



fmoke of burning fulph 

 manfions; but as the a 



ated in the 



V 



Some have 

 or of toba( 



fa£lions of the L 



mended to 



th 



fubt 



nje^t the 

 erraneous 



th frequently falls In behind them 



th 



ey 



pafs, or Is accumulated behind them by their hindermofl feet, as they 

 perforate the foil with their foremoft feet or hands, this method of 

 attack can feldom fucceed, unlefs the neH: of the animal be near the 



fumigated apert 



Oth 



have advifed 



P 



water into their 



holes, which is equally inefficacious in general, though it may h 



e 



ffea 



in pa 



fi 



Some alfo h 



baited 



ps 



with 



worms 



d others h 



dvlfed to put poifon Into th 



b 



they are not to be attraifled together like rats from their not app 



Z above ground 



The following method was related to me by Francis Paget of El 

 fton near Newark, a very popular and fuccefsful mole-catcher, whon 



I once a 



ded 



in 



h 



13 



pation to witnefs his operation 



Th 



moles have cities under ground, which confifl; of houfes, or nefts, 

 where they breed and nurfe their young ; communicating with thefe 



re wider and more frequented ft 

 eys of the male and temale pare] 



mad 



by th 



perpet 



5 ; as well as many other leis fre- 

 many diverging branches, which 



quented allies or bye roads, with 



they daily extend to colled food for therafelves or their progeny 



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