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be valued at fifty and fixty pound, but now you may have 
them for twenty millings ; indeed there is not any in Nezu- 
England that are perfectly black, but filver hair'd, that is 
fprinkled with grey hairs. 
The Jaccal} 
The Jaccal, is a Creature that hunts the Lions prey, a 
fhrew'd fign that there are Lions upon the Continent; there 
are thofe that are yet living in the Countrey, that do con- 
ftantly affirm, that about fix or feven and thirty years fince 
an l7idian [22] mot a young Lion? fleeping upon the body 
lyn's Voyages, p. 82; where is also an account of the way of hunting foxes in New 
England. Wood has nothing special, but that some of the foxes "be black. 
Their furrs is of much esteem" (/. c.) Williams (7. c.) has " mishquashim, a red 
fox ; pequaivus, a gray fox. The Indians say they have black foxes, which they 
have often seen, but never could take any of them. They say they are manit- 
tooes." Beside the common red fox, or miskquaskim, we have in all these ac- 
counts — and also in Morell's Nova Anglia, I. c, p. 129- — mention of a black 
fox ; which may have been the true black or silver fox, or, in part at least, the 
more common cross-fox (Aud. and Bachm., Viv. Qiiadr. N. A., p. 45) ; the pelt 
of which is also in high esteem. For Williams's gray fox, see the next note. 
Josselyn's climbing gray fox is perhaps the fisher (Mitstela Canadensis, Schreb.), 
notwithstanding the color. According to Audubon (/. c., pp. 51, 310, 315), this is 
called the black fox in New England and the northern counties of New York. I 
have heard it more often called black cat in New Hampshire. But the true gray 
fox ( Vulpes Virginian us) " has, to a certain degree, the power of climbing trees." 
Newberry Zoology, Expl. for Pacific Railroad, vi, part 4, p. 40. 
1 "A creature much like a fox, but smaller." — Voyages, p. 83. Probably the 
gray fox, called fcquatvus by R. Williams ( Vulpcs Virginianus, Schreb.) ; which 
has not the rank smell of the red fox. — Aud. and Bachm., I. c, p. 168. 
2 "Thej' told me of a young lyon (not long before) kill'd at Piscataway by an 
Indian." — Voyages, p. 23. Higginson says that lions "have been seen at Cape 
Anne." — Neiv-Eng. Plantation, 1. c., p. 119. " Some affirm," says Wood, "that 
they have seen a lion at Cape Anne. . . . Besides, Plimouth men" (that is, men 
of old Plymouth, it is likely) " have traded for lion-skins in former times. But 
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