.SPOTTED MARMOT. 
Woiga, from Simbuski to Somtof, is covered 
*^ with these salt barks; audit is in the lands 
" adjacent to these livers/ as weii as in the 
" barks, -where the So'jsHks are taken. They 
*' liave obtained the denomination of Soushk, 
which signifies " Nice-tasted," because they 
are extremely fond of sah." 
The following additions to this account ap- 
pear in Biiffon's Supplement — " I now," 
says he, " give a figure of this animal, which 
is not in the original work. Prince Galitzm, 
at tlie desire of M. De BufPon, was so obliging 
as to send eight Sousliks, with the necessary 
precautions for preserving them, alive till they 
should arrive in France. These eight animals 
reached Petersburgh, after a long journey from 
nSiberia: but, notwithstanding all the attention 
paid to them, they died in passing from Peters- 
burgh to France. The instructions from Sibe- 
ria .were, to feed them only with grain or 
hemp-seed; to give them as much air as pos- 
sible; and to put in their cage a considerable 
quantiiy of sand, because they burrow in light 
soils iu their natural slate. 
