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There areBEARsblack and white, wolves, the car- 
KASHEW, FOXES, porcupines a great many, the 
MOUNTAIN-CAT, MARTINS, BEAVERS, OTTERS, 
hares, and a few ermine. 
The female bears, efpecially the white, in defence 
of their young, will attack any thing ; but at other 
times, unlefs you wound them, it is faid they are 
not very dangerous. Many people affirm, and men- 
tion instances, that, being purfued by a bear, if you 
fall on your face, and remain immoveable, it will 
retire, without doing you any mifchief. A Angle 
wolf will never approach a man, nor need he be 
afraid of feveral attacking him together, unlefs in 
winter, when they are impelled to it by hunger. 
A venomous reptile, or inledl, is not to be found 
here, except toads, and they are extremely rare. 
The whole country is filled with very finall flies, 
which are exceedingly tormenting. 
Here are eagles, hawks, the horn-owl, and 
the red-game, with a fmaller fort which refemble 
them, called the spruce-partridge : thefe we may 
call the conftant inhabitants of the feathered kind. 
Of fea-birds, there are great variety. 
In the fummer, the woods are vifited with many 
* forts of little birds, and fome of them are of beauti- 
ful plumage. They breed here, but, towards win- 
ter, they leek a happier climate. 
In the autumn, there come a prodigious quantity 
of birds, which are called curlews. They are about 
the fize of a wood-cock, fhaped like them, and 
nearly of the fame colour j extremely fat, and moft 
delicious eating. They continue here but a very 
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