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Inhabits the countries bordering on the frozen, 
fea.; Kamtfchatka , the ifles between it and America » 
and the oppofite parts of America difcovered in 
Captain Bering's expedition, 1741; is again found 
in Greenland , Iceland , Spitsbergen , Zembla r 
and Lapland: burrows under ground; forms holes 
many feet in length; ftrews the bottom with mofs: 
in Greenland and Spitsbergen , lives in the cliffs of 
rocks, not being able to burrow, by reafon of the 
froft: two or three pair inhabit the fame hole : are 
in heat about Lady-Lay ; during that time continue 
in the open air *, afterwards take to their holes: go 
with young nine weeks: like dogs continue united 
in copulation: bark like that animal; for which 
reafons the Ruffians call them Pefzti * : have all the 
cunning of the common fox : prey on the young of 
geefe, ducks, and other water fowl, before they 
can fly; on groufe of the country, and hares, on 
the eggs of birds; and in Greenland (through ne- 
ceffity) on berries, fliell fifh, or any thing the fea 
flings up ; but their principal food in the North of 
Aft a , and in Lapland , is the Leming f, or Lapland 
Marmot: thofe of the countries lafl mentioned 
are very migratory, purfuing the Leming , a very 
wandering animal: fometimes thefe foxes will 
defert the country for three or four years, proba¬ 
bly in purfuit of their prey; for it is well known 
that the migrations of the Leming is very incon- 
ftant, appearing in certain countries only once in 
feveral years : the people of Jenefea fufpedl they 
• Or dogs, Strahknberg hAjl< RuJJla, 363. f No. 202. 
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