£76 
MARMOT, 
once or twice in twenty years : it feems like a vaft 
colony of emigrants, from a nation over-ftocked ; a 
difcharge of animals from the great Northern hive, 
that once poured out its myriads of human creatures 
upon Southern Europe. Where the head quarters of 
thefe quadrupeds are, is not very certainly known : 
Linnaeus fays, the Norwegian and Lapland Alps *, 
Pontoppidan feems to think, that Kolens rock, which 
divides Nordland from Sueden> is their native place ; 
but wherever they come from, none return. their 
courfe is pr^deflinated, and they purfue their fate. 
203. Ear¬ 
less 
Mus Noricus aut Citellus Agrico* viafa, corpore cinereo, auriculis 
la An. Subter. 485. Gefner quad. nullis. Lin.JyJt. 80. 
737. Railfyn. quad. 220. Cuniculus caudatus, auriculis 
Ziefel Scb-vuenkfelt Sfberiotropb. 86. nullis, cinereus. Brijfon quad. 101 . 
Mus citellus. M. cauda abbre- Le Zifel, de Buffon, xv. 139. 
M. without external ears, having only a fmall orifice 
on each fide the head, for the admittance of founds: 
blunt nofe : a long, ilender body : very fhort tail : 
color dark grey, or cinereous brown. 
The Tevrajhka , or Marmotta Minor *, is the fame 
animal with this, but differs a little in color: the 
upper part of the body is grey, in fome parts red- 
difh fpeckled with yellow : the feet yellow : the tail 
bufhy, three inches long •, above is dufky, fpeckled 
with yellow ; beneath is red ; the end black : length, 
from nofe to tail, one foot: is called by the Ruffians , 
1 
clouds, and fell in fhowers upon the ground : Per tempefates et re¬ 
pent inos imbres e ceelo decidant, incomperium unde, an ex remotioribia in - 
J'ulis, et hue <vento delate, an ex nubibus fiegulentis nates deferantur. Olai 
Magni de Gent. Septentr. 358. 
% G me lie <voy. Siberia , II. 448. 
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