FAT SQUIRREL. 
Neither, I imagine, are they to be met with 
in very warm countries, because our travellers 
are silent on this article. There are few or 
none in open countries, like Britain ; they re- 
quire temperate climates, abounding with 
wood. We find them in Spain, in France, in 
Greece, in Italy, in Germany, and in Switzer- 
land, where they live in the forests on the hills: 
and not on the tops of high mountains, like 
the Marmots; which, though subject to torpor 
from cold, seem to delight in frost and snows." 
Since BuiFon wrote the above account, Dr. 
Pallas has informed us, that the Fat Squirrel is 
found in the woods of the south-west part of 
Rnssia; and the doctor also discovered these 
animals in the rocky caverns about the rivers 
Samara and Volga. 
Miss Williams, in her Sketches of the Man- 
ners of the French Republic, just published, 
jocosely calls these animals Rats — " I have 
sent," says she, " a present of dead and dis- 
embowelled Rats for the epicurean. His friend 
promised him, some weeks ago, this delicious 
treat, and will put him to the expence of a 
fete, 
