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Jackafh ; Mr. Graham from Severn river fays, 
that it harbours about creeks, and lives on 
fifh, like the otter; it travels very flowly, and 
has from four to feven young at a time ; in 
fize it equals the marten ; its length is about 
16 inches ; its whole body is covered with 
fhining dark brown hairs, which lie very 
clofe, and feem perfectly convenient for an 
amphibious animal ; under thefe brown hairs 
the woolly hairs are tawny, the whole under- 
jaw is encompaffed by a ftripe of white hairs, 
and a little irregular fpot of the fame colour 
appears in the middle of the throat; the feet 
are quite covered with hair to the very nails, 
which are fmall, five on each foot, and of a 
whififh femipellucid colour ; the tail is pretty 
well befet with hair, though not bufhy, and 
much blacker than the reft of the body; it 
is about half as long as the whole animal. 
3. Pine Marten. Penn. Syn. Quad. p. 216. n* 
155. Mu flela Martes (Abie turn). Linn. 
Severn River. Male and Female. 
Thefe feem to be a variety of the yellow- 
breafled marten, Br. Zool. I. 81. their colour,, 
efpecially in the females, being much paler 
than that defcribed in Mr. Pennant’s works. 
The male is of a chefnut brown, the female 
a bright tawny yellow ; the former has here 
fome dark brown hairs, the latter in the fame 
manner has fome bright bay hairs. They 
both have white cheeks, and white tips of 
the ears. Their furrs are very full of hair, 
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