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and eggs : And in Greenland, for want of other food, 

 it feeds on berries and {hell-fifh. In Lapland and the 

 North of Afia, its principal food is the Leming, or Lap- 

 land Marmot ; immenfe fhoals of which fometimes cover 

 the face of the country. The Foxes follow them, in 

 their migrations, from one place to another ; and as the 

 return of the Marmot is very uncertain, and frequently 

 after great intervals of time, they are fometimes abfent 

 three or four years in purfuit of this their favourite prey. 



The hair of the Arclic Fotf is of an afh colour, but 

 changes to white in the winter, when it is long, foft, 

 and fomewhat woolly: Its tail is fhorter than that of the 

 common Fox, and more bufliy \ and its toes are covered 

 with fur on the under part, like thofe of the Hare : It is 

 fmaller and more flender than the European Fox : Its 

 nofe is (harp and black j and its ears fhort, and alrnoft 

 hid in the fur —-It is fometimes taken in traps : But its 

 ikin is of little value. 



