HAMSTER. 
five hundred and seventy-four skins of this 
animal, in another fifty-four thousand four 
hundred and twenty-nine, and in a third eighty 
thousand one hundred and thirty-nine, were 
delivered at the Town Hall. 
* Pennant says, that " the Hamsters inhabit 
Austria, Silesia, and many parts of Germany, 
Poland, and the Ukraine ; all the southern and 
temperate parts of Russia and Siberia; and 
even about the Jenesei, but not farther to the 
east. They are also found in the Tartarian 
desarts, in sandy soil, disliking rnoist places. 
They are very fond of spots which abound 
with Liquorice, on the seeds of which they 
feed. They swarm in Gotha. This animal 
is very destructive to grain : eating great quan- 
tities, and carrying still more to it's hoard. 
Within it's cheeks are two pouches, recepta- 
cles for it's booty, which it rills till the cheeks 
seem ready to burst: the Germans, therefore, 
say of a very greedy fellow, " Er frisst vuie 
*' ein Hamster." 
<c They first form an entrance under ground, 
by burrowing down obliquely* At the end of 
that 
