LEMINGo 
" the third is much smaller. Each of these 
M three teeth has a separate socket, and they 
" are placed in the palate at a considerable 
" distance from one another. The tongue is 
" pretty large, and extends to the extremity of 
" the cutting-teeth. From the remains of 
" herbs and straw found in it's throat, we are 
" inclined to think that it is a ruminating ani- 
" mal. The eyes are small, and black ; the 
" ears recline on the back. The fore-legs are 
" very short; and the feet covered with hair, 
" and armed with five sharp crooked claws. 
" The middle toe is very long ; and the fifth is 
" like, a small thumb, or a Cock's spur, and 
44 sometimes situated equally high on the leg. 
" The whole belly is whitish, inclined to yel- 
" low,'' &c. 
" These animals," adds BufTbn, " though 
their body is thick, and their legs are very 
short, fail not to run pretty swiftly. They 
generally inhabit the mountains of Norway 
and Lapland; but, in particular years, they 
sometimes de'scend in such numbers, that the 
I arrival of the Lemings is considered as a ter- 
rible scourge, the effects of which it is impos- 
sible 
