THE LAPLAND MARMOT, or LEMMUS. 



The females breed feveral times in the year, and bring forth five or fix 

 young ones at a birth. Sometimes their migration happens at the fealon of 

 parturition, and in that cafe they carry their litter with them, holding fome 

 in their mouths and others on their backs. 



Naturalifts have not yet been able to afcertain where thefe wonderful 

 animals are collected. Linnaeus alTerts that they are produced among the 

 Lapland and Norwegian Alps; and Pontoppidan imagines that Kolen's 

 Rock, which divides Nordland from Sweden, is the place of their nativity. 

 Thefe, however, are but conjectures; and we can only lay with Mr. Pennant, 

 that thefe quadrupeds purfue their fate, as, wherever they come from, none 

 return. 



