ERMINE. 
ruary 1780, he saw, in his grounds, two 
toats in the state of most perfect and beautiful 
Crmines — that, in the mountains of southern 
bia, and in Persia, it retains it's brown colour 
he whole year — that it inhabits, in great abun- 
lance, the north of Europe and of Asia, 
Camtschatka and the Kurile Islands, and is 
net with in Newfoundland and Canada — that 
he skins form a great article of commerce, in 
Norway and Siberia ; being found, in the last 
'lace, in plenty, in the Birch forests, but not 
a those of Fir or Pine — that the skins are 
old on the spot for from tvv^o to, three pounds 
terUng a hundred — that the animals are either 
aken in traps, or shot with blunt arrows — ■ 
.hd, that it's manners and food are the same 
V'ith those of the Common Weasel : but it 
loes not frequent houses ; it's haunts being 
voods and hedges, especially such as border 
ni some brook. 
Whatever may be the opinion of the writers 
if natural history, respecting the identity of 
nr well-known animal the Stoat, and the 
orthern Eimisie; it would, we apprehend, 
e extremely difficult to persuade any furrier 
that 
