THE COMMON WEASEL. 



trained a young Weafel to follow him wherever he went. This he 

 accomplimed by ftroking it gently over the back, and threatening and even 

 beating it whenever it offered to bite." If thefe fads can be well 

 authenticated and eftablifhed by future experiments, the Weafel may prove 

 to be a very advantageous fubftitute for the Cat, particularly on board of 

 mips, where its fize and mape render it very well adapted to the purfuit of 

 Rats and Mice into their holes and lurking places. 



This animal inhabits the temperate parts of Europe, but is fcarce in the 

 north. It is alfo found in Barbary (a,) and in Siberia there is a white 

 variety, which is called Lafmitlka: the Ikins of thefe are fold to the Chinefe 

 for three or four rubles the hundred (b.) 



(a) Shaw's Travels, 249. 



(b) Pennant's Syn. Quad. p. 212. 



