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The account fent along with it from Severn 
River fays, that thefe white foxes are filly, 
inoffenfive animals ; and are known to {land 
by, whilft a trap is baited for them, into 
which they put their heads immediately : they 
will, when pinched by hunger, devour thofe 
of their own kind, which are already caught 
in thefe traps. But the moil curious cir- 
cumftance is, their migration to the North- 
ward and the Eafiern coafts of the bay ; for 
though a few of them are caught every year 
near York fort and Churchill river, yet, once 
in three or four years, they come in great 
numbers; and feveral hundred of their furrs 
are fent to England in that plentiful feafons, 
which always begins in November, and ends 
in April. The fpecimen fent is full grown, 
and its furr quite in feafon. 
2. Lesser Otter. Penn. Syn.'Quadr. p. 239. n. 
174. Muflela Lutreola Linn. Syft. Nat. 66. Faun. 
Suec. N° 13. 
Severn River. 
I am Hill dubious, whether this animal ought 
to be looked upon as the fame with the lefier 
otter of Europe and Afia ; many circum- 
ftances feem to prove this identity ; but fome, 
fuch as the want of webs, which I could 
not difcover between the toes, and the white 
fpot on the neck, will not admit of it. I 
have, therefore, fubjoined a defcription of this 
creature at the end of this article. The na- 
tives of Hudfon’s Bay call this quadruped 
B b b 2 Jackafh ; 
