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ST.:O he.  -‘Cyage til 
creme colored breed is fometimes found in i lands — 
near Downing. 
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The fmallnefs of the eyes (which gave occafion’ 
to the ancients to deny it the fenfe of fight*,) is to” 
this animal a peculiar happinefs: a fmall degree of 
vifion is fufficient for an animal ever deftined to 
live under ground: had thefe organs been larger, 
they would have been perpetually liable to injuries, — 
by the earth falling into them; but nature, to pre- 
vent that inconvenience, hath not only made them 
very f{mall, but alfo covered them very clofely 
with fur. Anatomifts mention (befides thefe) a 
third very wonderful contrivance for their fecurity ;_ 
and inform us that each eye is furnifhed witha 
certain mufcle, by which the animal has power of 
withdrawing or exerting them, according to its exi- 
gencies. 
To make amends for the pee of its fight, 
the mole is amply recompenfed, by the great per- 
fection of two other fenfes, thofe of hearing and of 
{melling: the firft gives it notice of the moft diftant 
approach of danger: the other, which is equally 
exquifite, dire¢ts it in the midft of darknefs to its 
food: the nofe alfo, being very long and flender, 
is well formed for thrufting into {mall holes; in 
fearch of the worms and infects that inhabit them, 
* Aut oculis capti fodere cubilia talpe. Virg. Georg. 1, 
Or fghtle/s moles have dug their chamber’d lodge, 
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