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MUSTELID^. 



skins are now selling at Quebec at not more than six 

 dollars each. 



The cubs, or young Otters, which never, I believe, 

 exceed from two to three in number, are generally born 

 in the month of April, they are soon able to shift for 

 themselves and take to the water very early. 



FALLS ON THE OTTAWA. 



