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mals are Lincolnfbire, Norfolk, and Cambridgefbire. 
Methold, in the laft county, is famous for the beft 
fort for the table: the foil there is fandy, and full 
of moffes and the Carex grafs. Rabbets fwarm in 
the ifles of Orkney, where their fkins form a confi- 
derable article of commerce. Excepting otters, 
brown rats, common mice, and fhrews, no other 
quadrupeds are found there. The rabbets’ of 
thofe ifles are in general grey, thofe which inhabit | 
the hills, grow hoary in winter. 
Formerly the filver-haired rabbets were in great 
efteem for lining of cloaths, and their fkins fold at 
three fhillings a piece *; but fince the introdudction 
of the more elegant furs, the price is fallen to fix- 
pence each. The Sunk Hand + inthe Humber was 
once famous for a moufe-coloured fpecies, now ex- 
tirpated by reafon of the Ey it did to the banks 
by burrowing. 
* Hartlib’s Legacy. + Ph. Trans. No. 361- 
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