NATURAL HISTORY. 
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Though the hare is reckoned the moft ti- 
morous of all animals in its wild Hate, it 
.will, if taken when young, become fo tame 
and familiar, as to deep with the grey-hound, 
terrier, or pointer ; of which the writer of 
this article has been an eye-witnefs. This 
folitary animal, although not polTeffed of the 
the wily fubtilty of the fox, difcovers a moft 
wonderful inftinft, which has been given it 
for its prefervation. The various ftratagems 
and doubles it makes, when hunted, to avoid 
death, would excite the furprife of every be- 
holder ; nor does it difplay lefs fagacity and 
cunning, in preventing the poacher from trac- 
ing it through the fnow, by taking the moft 
extraordinary leaps, to elude danger, before 
llie takes her form. 
The RABBIT and the MOLE. 
T 
X HE great fimilarity between the rabbit 
and the hare, leaves but little to be faid by 
die natural hiftorian, or the moralift, in its 
delcriptioii. Their figure, food, and natu- 
J'al properties, are nearly the fame. The 
hare feeks its fafety by flight, while the rab- 
't runs to its fubterraneous burrow, w'hich 
nature has taught her to make with an inge- 
nuity, not to be excelled by the moft expe- 
j’lenced miner. Tlie fruitfulnefs of the rab- 
nit fo far exceeds that of the hare, that ac- 
H cording 
