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rnal, during fummer, has a moil exquifite irufky 
fmell j which it lofes in winter: perhaps the fcent is 
derived from the Calamus Aromaticus , a favorite 
food of this animal. Lefcarbot fays they are very 
good to eat. 
Long- Mus aquaticus Clufn exot. 373. gacomprelTo-lanceolata pedibufc 
' * nosed. Worm. Mus. 334. palmatis, Lin.fyfi. 79. Dacfman, 
Mufcovy or Mtdk rat, Rail Jyn , Faun. fuec. No. 28. 
quad, 217. iVW. Com. Petrop. iv. Caftor cauda verticaliter plana, 
373. digitis omnibus membranis intef 
Caftor mofchatus. C. cauda Ion- fe connexis. Brijfon quad. 92. 
B. with a long {lender nofe, like that of a Aire\# 
moufe : no external ears : very fmall eyes : tail com- 
preffed Tideways : color of the head and back, 
dufky; the belly, whitifh afh-color: length, from 
nofe to tail, feven inches •, tail eight. 
Inhabits Lapland , RuJJia , the banks of the rivers 
Volga and the Taick : never wanders far from the 
fides: is very flow in its pace: makes holes in 
the cliffs with the entrance far beneath the loweft 
fall of the water •, works upwards, but never to the 
furface, only high enough to lie beyond the higheft 
flow of the river: feeds on fifli: is devoured by 
the Pikes and Siluri , and gives thofe fifli fo ftrong a 
flavor of muik, as to render them not eatable : has 
the fame fcent as the former, efpecially about the 
tail out of which is expreffed a fort of mufk very 
much refembiing the genuine kind *. The fkins are 
put into chefts among cloaths, to drive away moths f. 
* Schobers Memorabilia Rufs. Afiat. in Mulleds Scvnlung Rufs. viL 
41, 42. 
f Ucbkoff Or mb. Topogr. 1 . 286, 
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