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DISEASES, &c. 



Sect. XIV. 4. 3, 



by obfervlag whether a mole has again paffed that way, and obUtei 



ed the foot nriark 



d th 



be done two or three fuccefi 



mornings. 



Thefe foot-marks fhould 



fhould alarm the animal on h 



be deeply impreffed 

 nd he fhould form a 



ft 



braiich of road 



ther than open the obftruded 



The traps are then to be fet in the frequented ftreets, {o 



fit the divided 



They confift of a hollow femicylinder of 



ood with grooved rings at each end of it, in which 



placed two 



noofes of horfehair, one at each end^ failened loofely by a peo- in 

 center, and ftretched above ground by a bent ftick. When the ra 

 hns pafled half way through one of the noofes, ajid removes the cc 



tral 



pe 



his 



P 



ffio 



n, the bent ftick rifes by 



llrangulates the animal. 



fticity, and 



He added, that 



h 



ere 



th 



foil 



w 



too 



ft or tenacious, that the moles in pafling the old runs fo 



puftied 



of it befo 



them 



d thus loofened 



before they were in the noofe ; in which cafe he fixed the peo- a 1 

 fafter in the trap. 



By thefe means Francis Paget cleared many of the neighbour 



pe 



O 



fh 



f this kind of vermin 



fe 



o 



and laid them und 

 from thefe invadci 



days 



week 



for the defence of th 



territories 



invaders. . And added, that fome other mole-catchers had 

 d moles into thofe farms, whofe occupiers refufed to pay them 



an 



tailed th 



ftipend, a pradice which he fcorned 

 method to prevent this impolition, 



fe. I have d 



farmer to be 

 v a nts , 



n 



d 



atcher, or to teach th 



art 



ble every 

 D hi^ fer« 



J»HYTOLOGIA. 



