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it may have a retreat, for no animal affects lying 
_ drier, and there makes a minute orifice for the ad- 
miffion of air: it is further obferved, that this ani- 
mal, the more effectually to conceal its retreat, con- 
trives to make even this little air hole in the mid- 
dle of fome thick bufh. 
The otter brings four or five young at atime: 
as it frequents ponds near gentlemen’s houfes, there 
have been inftances of litters being found in cel- 
lars, finks, and other drains. It is obfervable that 
the male otters never make any noife when taken, 
but the pregnant females emit a moft fhrill fqueal. _ 
Sir Robert Sibbald, in his hiftory of Fife, p. 49, Sta Orrer. 
mentions a Sea Otter, which he fays differs from the 
common fort, in being larger, and having a rougher 
coat; but probably it does not differ fpecifically 
from the kind that frequents frefh waters. Did not 
Ariftotle place his Latax* among the animals which 
Hz otek. 
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calugiov, Ker eyudeic, non n nocdewevy cla. ext de To. wAmTUlegoy 
x D: oy S 
Eyuogl 05, ua odovlag EXEL LX UeaS EeIgoa Yae vuRTWP TOMAGHIG, TOE 
_ Teot Tov Wlaynov uecmious euleuyer 'To1s od8oIOY. Oanver De THs avbourre 
Li Evu0gls, uO Bn ADINTW, ws AEY¥CL, EX DIS ay oo# Lobo angan. 
~ AES a 
TO OF TeX mum Exel n AdilaE guAngov, Kat TO El00S weTAEY TE THE 
Oauns Teixwuclos, uate ths snags, Ariftot. Hift. Anim. p., 
nog. A, 
4a 
Sunt etiam in hoc genere (fc. animalium quadrupedum que 
vitium ex lacubus et fluviis petunt) fiber, fatherium, fatyrium, 
lutris, latax, que latior lutre eft, dentefque habet rvobuftos, 
quippe 
