•loE M O L E. ClafsL 



Ic is a mild, helplefs, and patient animal ; and 

 ■would be liable to injury from every enemy, had not 

 providence guarded it with a ftrong covering ; and a 

 power of rolling itfelf into a ball 5 by that means fe- 

 curing the defencelefs parts. The barbarity of anato- 

 mies furnifhes us with an amazing inflance of its pa- 

 tience ; one that was diffefled alive, and whofs feet 

 were nailed down to the table endured that, and 

 every ftroke of the operator's knife^ without even one 



Genus XVIil. The M O L E. 



-Species I. The MOLE. 



Talpa. The Mole, Mold-Warp, anticis et pofficia pentadsdlj''- 



or Want. Rojifyn. quad. 236., lis. Erijfon quad. 203. 



Spotted Mole. £^1^.268. De Buji»,vm, Si~ Tah.iz, 



Meyer's an. 1.^ ah. 2. Talpa euiopsus. T. caudata^, 



Talpa alba noflras. 5sb, MusA,. pedibus peDtadaclyiis. Uz^ 



p. 61. Tab.iz..L K JyJ'-lZ- 



tib. Scot. II. faun. Suec. 23. 



Gefncr quad. 93 i . Talpa. Klein quad^ 6JV 



Talpa caudata nigricans pedibus Br. Zoo/, zz. 



NAMES. 



Srff. 



Gvvadd, TwTch daear 



Germ. 



' Mulwerf 



Fren. 



La Taupe 



Dut. 



Mol 



Ital. 



Talpa 



SiveJ. 



Mulvad, Surk 



Span. 



Topo 



Dan. 



Muldvarp 



Port. 



ToupeJra 







THERE are many animals in which the di- 

 vine wifdom may be more agreeably illuf^ 



* Cliwis ierehrari fibz pedes et difciTsd't nfi/cera patient jJJiTKeJereiat^ 

 cmms cultri i£ius fine gcmitu plufquam Spartand nobilitoAe cmcoqugtu^ 

 Borricb in Bias, de Ewluno. Derham'i Pb)f. TheoL 240, 



trated 



