Class I. RABBET. 233 



Formerly the silver-haired rabbets were in 

 great esteem for lining cloaths, and their skins 

 sold at three shillings a piece ;* but since the in- 

 troduction of the more elegant furs, the price is 

 fallen to six-pence each. The Sunk Island^ in 

 the Humber was once famous for a mouse- 

 coloured species, now extirpated by reason of 

 the injury it did to the banks by burrowing. 



* HartUVs Legacy, f Ph. Trans. No. 36l. 



