SFOTTED MOLE. 
the old and young, is to make a roUnd. t^eficK, 
which will cut off all the comiTiuiikating 
passages.' But, as the Mole,, on the smallest 
noise, flies off, and endeavours to carry away 
her young, it Vv^ill be necessary to ei-nploy three 
or four men with spades to raise the hillock at 
once, or to make a trench almost instantane- 
ously, and then to seize them, or to watcli 
them, as they attempt to escape." 
In. England, where Mole-hills do considera- 
ble damage, the most common way of taking 
the animal is by traps placed in the princi- 
pal runs, as our Mole-catchers denominate the 
subterranean passages. In the spring season, 
when they catch a female, they rub her hinder 
parts about the bows, and inside, of the well- 
known Mole-traps ; by which means, they 
soon catch all the males. Another expedient is, 
to put some dead moles in the runs ; which, it 
is said, , will keep the living away. Pennant 
recommends their destru6iion, by laying in 
their holes a paste made of Palma Christi Oil 
and the pulverized root of White Hellebore. 
f Buffon, with an evil eye to Linnaeus, whom 
he seldom spares, observes that:, it has been 
fooHshly asserted, by some writers, that the 
Mole, 
