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Leverets thert with ,tbe white fpot in flie Head, which 
the Old ones hive not, fo it is in and the 
Down is ptrfe£lly cf ihe cclour of our Hares^they fit as 
our Hares do, and make no Holes and Burrows in the 
Earth; truCj they are but abrut tha bignefs of an Englifi 
Rabber, and run no fafter ; they generally take mio 
(bme hollow Tree within a little ipace, which then the 
People carch by gathering the withered Leaver, arid fet- 
ting them on fire within the hollow of the Tree, and 
fmoaking of them Co till they fall down. Somedmes 
they take long Bryars, and twift them in the Down and 
Skin, and fo pull them forth. 
Squirrels^ there are three forts. The firft is the great 
Fox Squirrel, much larger than xht Eriglijh^ and gray, 
almoft as a common Rabbet. Thefe are very common, 
I have eaten of them at the beft Gentkmeos Tables , 
and they are as good as a Rabbet. The Second is the 
Flying Squirrel, of a lighter Dun colour, and much lefs 
than the Englijh Squirrel ; the Skin on either fide the 
Belly extended is very large betwixt the fore-leg and 
hind-leg, which helps them much in their skipping from 
one Bough to another, that they will leap farther than, 
the Fox-Squirrel, though much lefs, yet this is ftill ra- 
ther skipping than flying, though the diftindioo be well 
enough. The Third is the Grouod-Sqjirrel, I never 
fawany of this fort, only I ha?e been told of chem, 
apd have had them thus defcribed to me, to be little 
bigger than a Moufe, finely fpotted like a young Fawn ; 
by what I further apprehended, they are an abfolute 
fort of Dcr-Mouft, only di(Krent in colour. 
Musk'Rats^ in all things ftiaped like our Water-Rats, 
only fomethiog larger, and is an abfolute Species of Wa- 
ter-Rats, only having a curious Musky fcent : I kept one 
for a certain time in a wooden Cheft ; two days- before it 
dyed it was extraordinary Odoriferous^ and fented the 
Room very much ; but the day that it dyed, and a day 
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