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of an Oak blown up by the roots, with an Arrow, not far 
from Cape Anne, and fold the Skin to the Englifh. But 
to fay fomething of the faecal, they are ordinarily lefs 
than Foxes, of the colour of a gray Rabbet, and do not 
fcent nothing near fo ftrong as a Fox; some of the In- 
dians will eat of them: Their Greafe is good for all that 
Fox Greafe is good for, but weaker; they are very numer- 
ous. 
The Hare} 
The Hare in New -England is no bigger than our 
Engli/Ji Rabbets, of the fame colour, but withall having 
yellow and black ftrokes down the ribs; in Winter they 
are milk white, and as the Spring approacheth they come 
to their colour; when the Snow lies upon the ground 
they are very bitter with feeding upon the bark of Spruce, 
and the like. 2 
sure it is that there be lions on that continent; for the Virginians saw an old lion 
in their plantation," &c. — Ne-w-E?ig. Prosped, I. c. The animal here spoken of 
may well have been the puma or cougar, or American lion. 
1 •' The rabbits be much like ours in England. The hares be some of them 
white, and a yard long. These two harmless creatures are glad to shelter them- 
selves from the harmful foxes in hollow trees; having a hole at the entrance no 
bigger than they can creep in at." — Wood., New-Eng. Prosfiefi, I. c. Wood's 
rabbit and Josselyn's hare, so far as the summer coloring goes, appear to be the 
gray rabbit (Lefius sylvaticus, Aud. and Bachm., /. c. p. 173) ; and the white hare 
of Wood — as also, probably, the hare, "milk-white in winter," of Josselyn — is 
doubtless the northern hare (Leptts Americanus, Erxl., Aud. and Bachm., c, 
P- 93)- 
2 The Voyages mention, beside the quadrupeds above named, also the skunk 
(stgankoo of Rasles' Di£t., /. c.) ; the musquash (moos/sooe'ssoo of Rasles, /. c), for 
