WOLVERENE. 
be between them, it should seem that there 
must, of necessity, be some obvious distinc- 
tion. 
BufFon, however, positively maintains, in 
his supplementary remarks, that the American 
Carcajou is the same animal with the Euro- 
pean Glutton ; or, at least, that it is a species 
very nearly allied to the Glutton : but, he owns 
his convi6i:ion, that it is not the same animal 
as the Kinkajou, which some naturalists have 
imagined, whose opinion he had formerly 
adopted. He observes, that Gmelln is the 
only writer who seems to think that the Glut- 
ton travels into warm countries : but this fa6i:, 
he adds, appears very suspicious, if not en- 
tirely false. Gmelln, like some other natura- 
lists, among whom is Brlsson, has perhaps 
confounded the Hyaena of the south, with the 
Glutton of the nortli ; which, though they re- 
semble each other in natural dispositions, and 
particularly in voraciousness, are very diffe- 
rent animals. 
To the increase of the fur trade, we chiefly 
owe 
