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or compelled to purfue them. They commit 
depredations on young pigs, lambs, poultry, 
&c. 
The mole is not fo common here as in the 
northern eflates* 
The bats of Florida leem to be the lame fpe- 
cies of thofe in Pennfylvania and Virginia, and very 
little different from the European. 
Here are feveral fpecies of fquirrels, (fciurus) 
peculiar to the lower countries, or maritime parts 
of Carolina and the Floridas, and fome of them 
are very beautiful creatures. 
The great black fox fquirrel is above two feet 
in length from the nofe to the end of the tail, 
which for about two inches is milk white, as are 
the ears and nofe. The red fox fquirrel is of the 
fame fize and form, of a light reddifh brown upper 
fide, and white under fide, the ears and tip eud of 
the tail white. 
The grey fox fquirrel is rather larger than 
either of the foregoing; their belly white, as are 
the ears, nofe, and tip of the tail. Thefe three 
feem to be varieties of the fame fpecies. 
The common grey fquirrel is about half the fize 
of the preceding. 
The black fquirrel is about the fame fize, and all 
over of a fhining jet bl^ck. 
The little grey fquirrel is much lefs than either 
of the preceding fpecies ; it is of a brownifh grey 
upper fide, and white belly. 
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