PERFUMING SHREW. 
we meet with a passage which aftords us some 
shght intimation of the Perfuming Shrew; 
but we incline to believe that, if this animal 
were in reahty designated, it would have been 
described more particularly, by it's most ob- 
vious distin6lions of form and colour. We 
shall extradl what we allude to, that our rea- 
ders, on comparing it with the subsequent de- 
scription of the Perfuming' Shrew, may form 
an opinion of their own on the subjecTl:. 
*' M. le Vicom.te Querhoent," savs BufFon, 
*' has favoured me wnth the following re- 
marks — That tlie Rats, transported from Eu- 
rope to the Isle of France, increased to such a 
degree that, it is alledged, they made the 
Dutch leave tlie island. The French have di- 
minished the number, though great quantities 
of tliem still remain^ Sometime, adds M. De 
Querhoent, after a Rat resides in India, heac- 
nuires so strongs a smell of musk, that he sccr.ts 
every thing for a couvsiderable space round his 
habitation ; and it is asserted that, when he 
comes near wine, he makes it turn sour. This 
Indian Rat appears to be the same whicli tl-iC 
Portuguese call Cheroso, or the Odoriferous 
Rat. 
