SHRE W. 
tawny hair : fhort tail: length, from nole to tail, 
nine inches. 
Inhabits Mexico: burrows, and makes fuch a 
nymber of cavities, that travellers can fcarce tread 
with fafety : if it gets out of its hole, does not know 
how to return, but begins to dig another: grows 
very fat, and is eatable : feeds on roots, kidney- 
beans, and other feeds. M. de Buffon thinks it a 
mole , but by the ears, it fhould be clafied here. 
