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animal becaufe the extraordinary heat from fuch a 
warm cloathing would not only become highly in- 
convenient, but the colour alfo (being white) would 
point the animal out to its purfuers ; as Mr. Graham 
takes notice in his very accurate catalogue, that this 
quadruped does not burrow. 
This very fenfible officer of the Hudfon’s Bay 
Company likewife adds, that this animal continues 
always near the fame fpot j that its coat is brown in 
futnmer j that they breed from 5 to 7 young ones, and 
fome times twice a year : he alfo ftates, that the weight 
at a medium is nearly 4 lb. I am, 
Dear Sir, 
Your mod faithful, 
humble fervant, 
Daines Barrington> 
[jr] It muft be admitted, however, that the white coat during 
the winter is not a fufficient protection to the animal againft the 
lagacity of the arch-enemy man. 
Mr. Reinhold Forfter (who is a native of Polifh Pruflia) in- 
forms me that Hares are found in the northern parts of Europe, 
when the fnow is on the ground, by an exhalation of vapours 
from their bodies, whilft they are fitting in their form, efpecially 
if the fun happens to fhine. 
I can very eafily conceive that fuch a vapour may be ditlin- 
guifhed, as I have frequently in a frofty morning feen the air 
condenfed, which hath iflued from the mouth of fo fmall a bird 
as a Robin, when in full fong. 
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