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eaten of them at the belt Gentlemens Tables, 

 and they are as good as a Rabbet. The Se- 

 cond is the Flying Squirrel, of a lighter Dun 

 colour, and much lefs than the ErigUjh Squir- 

 rel ^ the Skin on either fide the Belly ex- 

 tended is very large betwixt the fore-leg and 

 hind-leg, which helps them much in their 

 skipping from one Bough to another , that 

 they vvrill leap farther than the Fox-Squirrel, 

 though much lefs, yet this is ftill rather skip- 

 ping than flying, though the diftinaion be 

 well enough. The Third is the Ground- 

 Squirrel, I ne\^er faw any of this fort, only 

 1 have been told of them, and have had them 

 thus defcribed to me, to be little bigger thaa 

 aMoufe, finely fpotted like a young Fawn ; 

 by what I further apprehended, they are an 

 abfolute fort of Dor-Moufe, only different 

 in colour. 



MmkiRats^ in all things fhaped like our 

 Water-Rats, only fomething larger, and is 

 an abfolute Species of Water-Rats, only hav- 

 ing a curious Musky fcent : I kept one for a 

 certain time in a wooden Cheft ; two days 

 before it died it was extraordinary Odorife- 

 ous, and fcented the Room very much ^ but 

 the day that it died, and a day after the fcent 

 was very fmall, yet afterwards the Skin was 

 very fragrant*, the Stones alfo fmelt very 

 W€ll. They build Houfes as Beavers do, in 

 the Marflies and Swamps (as they there call 

 them) by the Water-fides, with two or three 

 ways into them, and they are finely daubed 

 within. I pulled one in pieces purpofely to 

 fee the contrivance: There were three dif- 

 ferent Lodging-Rooms, very neat, one high- 

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