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The Martin is about eighteen inches long; the tail 

 ten, and full of hair, efpecially towards the end, which 

 is thick and bufhy ; the ears are broad, rounded, and 

 open ; the body is covered with a thick fur, of a dark- 

 brown colour ; the head brown, mixed with red ; the 

 throat and breaft are white ; the belly is of the fame co- 

 lour with the back, but a little paler; the feet are broad, 

 and covered on the under fide with a thick fur; the 

 claws white, large, and (harp, well adapted for climbing 

 trees, which in this country are its conftant refidence. 



The ikin and excrements have an agreeable mulky 

 fcent, and are entirely free from that ranknefs which is 

 fo difgufting in other animals of this kind. Its fur is va- 

 luable, and in high eftimation. 



fo highly efteemed for its fkin, is a native of the fnowy 

 regions of the North, being found chiefly in Siberia, 

 Kamtfchatka, and fome of the iflands which lie between 

 that country and Japan. A few are alfo found in Lap- 

 land. 



The darkeft furs are the moil valuable. A fingle fkin, 

 though not above four inches broad, is fometirnes valued 



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