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tailed deer, and ihe prang-horned antelope, 

 are only met with in remoter districts. The 

 grizzly bear is the most formidable monster 

 of the western wilds ; the black bear is also 

 common ; the cougar, or pantlier, also oc- 

 curs. The brown wolf, the prairie wolf, and 

 the gray wolf are common, the two last in 

 large packs. The beaver is still taken in 

 great numbers in some retired tracts. Sev- 

 eral species of marmots, especially the prai- 

 rie dog, the badger, lynx, otter, several 

 foxes and squirrels, the opossum, skunk, 

 hare, &c., are also found. The raccoon is 

 often hunted by the settlers at night, as in 

 the Eastern States. The camas rat, or 

 gopher, is found in the western districts. 

 The badger is common in the nortlieastern 

 portions. Among the birds, the Washing- 

 ton and bald eagle, several hawks and owls, 

 and the various migratory birds already enu- 

 merated under the head of North America, 

 abound in the deep forests, on the banks of 

 rivers, and around the shores of lakes, whose 

 solitude is scarcely interrupted except by 

 their warbling or their screams. Of the 

 gallinaceous birds are the turkey, the nobility 

 of the barn-yard, the dusky grouse, the 

 cock of the plains, the sharp-tailed grouse, 

 and rufled grouse. The passenger pigeon 

 darkens the air, and shakes the forest by its 

 The turkey buzzard and the carrion crow, the raven, the swan, and the crane, the 



&c., are to be added to 



Raccoons. 



Gopher. 



numbers. 



magpie, the jay, the mocking-bird, the whip-poor-will, geese, ducks 

 the list- The fish of the rivers are numerous, and many of them are peculiar 



Raven. 



II lup-poor-teill. 



10. Inhabitants. The inhabitants are the descendants or natives of almost every European 

 country, and of every Atlantic State. The destitute and opjiressed population of Europe may 

 here receive their share of the earth, the original patrimony of man. There are separate com- 

 munities of French, Swiss, and Germans ; and there are many English, Scotch, and Irish 

 citizens. Ohio is chiefly peopled from New England ; and Kentucky and Tennessee froni 

 Virginia and North CaroUna. 



