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to our modem Luculluses.. Mr. Gibbon has 
dignified it with the generic name of Squirrel ; 
which it resembles in nothing ■ but. a slightly 
brushy tail. There is no reason,, why an 
animal fattened with" Peaches and Nectarines, 
should not equal the Frog which feeds less 
luxuriously, and' which, is eaten without dis- 
gust." 
We almost suspect, that Miss Williams sent: 
her friend the Garden Squirrel, or Lerot, in- 
stead of the Loir: in which case, notwith- 
standing it feeds on the most delicious fruits, 
if we may rely on BufTon, her friend had, in- 
deed, a present of food perhaps less .palatable 
than even the. flesh of the Rat f 
