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remain, although scarce; the black bear, the cougar, the lynx, 
wolf, fox, and the smaller animals are still found occasionally. 
The jaguar is not now found east of Texas. Brickell states that 
they were found in the mountains of North Carolina as late as 
1737. 
` It has been asserted that the red fox was an importation from 
Europe, and not a native ; it is a fact that the European red fox 
has been imported and turned loose at different times, by English 
gentlemen for sporting purposes, but the red fox existed here be- 
fore the arrival of the white men. Capt. James Hall, in the ac- 
count of his fourth voyage 1563, says, “ there are store of foxes 
in the main and islands, of sundry colors.” Capt. Luke Fox found 
an island near the mouth of Hudson’s Bay, where he killed several 
dun colored foxes, and on this account called the island “Dunne 
Foxe Island.” 
Carver 1763, says, “there two sorts of foxes in North America, 
one being of a reddish brown and the other of a gray 
Bartram 1761, says, ‘ — foxes of Carolina and Florida are of 
the smaller red species.” 
Wolves are everywhere mentioned, and as late as 1820, the 
State of New York alone had expended thirty-eight thousand two 
hundred and sixty dollars in bounties for killing these animals 
during the preceding five years. ; 
Stevens, 1708, says, ‘‘some years ago there were killed five hun- 
dred bears in two counties of Virginia.” 
The beaver was very abundant. Vanderdonck 1642, says, 
‘That in the New Netherlands, and in the adjacent country, 
about eighty thousand beavers have e ae annually during 
my residence of nine years in the coun 
The dog was found in all parts of the evaiehry: and from the de- 
scription must have been the same as those now found with the 
Indians of the plains. 
Columbus, in his second voyage, 1494, says, * no four-footed 
animal has ever been seen in this (Hispaniola) island or any other 
islands except some dogs of various colors, as in our own country, 
but in shape like large house dogs.” These semi wild dogs have 
followed the Indians, and are only to be found with them in the 
far west. The wild animals having been removed in the march of 
civilization to make room for the domestic varieties that are more 
useful to man, it will, perhaps, be in place to say a word about 
their introduction to this coun 
