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female by the fagacity of its nofe : breeds often in 
the year; brings three or four at a time : are very 
fubjed to fleas: the Daleairlians make a cloth of 
the fur^ which preferves the wearer from their at¬ 
tacks : the fur is of great ufe in the hat manufac¬ 
ture : many thoufands of the flcins are for that ufe 
annually imported here from Raffia: feeds on vege¬ 
tables : fond of the bark of young trees : great lo¬ 
ver of birch, parfly and pinks: was a forbidden 
food among the Britans : the Romans , on the con¬ 
trary, held it in great efteem. 
Inter quadrupedes gloria prima lepus 
was the opinion of Martial \ and Horace , who was 
likewife a Bon-viyant , fays, that every man of tafte 
muff prefer the wing 
Fcecundi leporis fapiens feffiahitur arm-os, \ 
The hare of North America differs little in form 
or color, from that of Europe *, but is Ids by a third : 
the legs are fhorter in proportion ; and the fur has a 
tinge of cinereous: when purfued, takes refuge in a 
hollow tree : frequent^ marlines and meadows : very 
deftrudive to the turnip and cabbage fields. 
'Lepus hieme albus. Forjier hifi. Alpine hare, Br. Zocl. ilhiflr, 40. 184. 
nat. VoLGTE. Pb. Tranf. LVlI. tab. xlvii, 
343 - 
EL with foft hair, in fummer grey, with a flight 
mixture of black and tawny : with fhorter ears, and 
more flender legs, than the common hare 2 the feet 
of 
