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and allowed the mole to remain suspended in it: in about a quarter of an hour, he 
perceived a Weasel very actively engaged in striving to get the mole out of the 
wires which held it. The animal ran up thG stick which formed the spring of the 
trap, and then descended on the captive, which he seized, and tried by wriggling, 
twisting, and hanging by it, to appropriate it to his own use, but without success. 
When exhausted with his efibrts, he dropt on the ground, when, having taken 
wind, he ran up the stick again, and renewed his task with redoubled ardour. 
“My old friend,” says the writer, “having observed him try ten or eleven times 
successively, thought that he deserved the mole, for his trouble and perseverance, 
and, taking it from the trap, laid it on the ground ready for him, but on being 
disturbed, he retreated, and would not again make his appearance, while the old 
man remained.” He proceeds, “An instance of the aflection of the Weasel for its 
offspring was related to me by one of our labourers.—He was standing in a foot¬ 
path, close to a hedge side, when he observed something coming towards him, but 
till it got close to him he could not be certain what it was : at last he perceived it 
was a weasel, with a young one in its mouth. The animal was so intent on her 
burden, that she did not see the man until he kicked at her, when she dropped 
her young one and retreated into the bottom of the hedge. The man then stood 
over the helpless young one with a large stick in his hand, not with the intent of 
harming the old one, but merely to see how she would proceed. She soon peeped 
out of her covert, and then made several feints to get her charge; but was obli¬ 
ged to run into the hedge, apparently intimidated at the stick, which he flourished 
and knocked about. At last she summoned up all her resolution for one grand 
effort j and in spite of the opposition of the man, she, after a great deal of dodg¬ 
ing to avoid the stick, which he used every way to keep her off, without hurting 
her, fairly succeeded in obtaining the object of her solicitude, and bore it off in 
triumph from between his legs.” 
Page 240.—Article 12. On the ,Taw and Teeth of a Mammoth^ and of some other 
Fossils, found in a Flint- Quarry, in the neighbourhood of Chatham; being the 
substance of a Lecture, delivered to the Philosophical and Literary Society of 
that town, by Robert Dodd, Esq. 
After having given an explanation of the different fossils that had been dis¬ 
covered in that neighbourhood, Mr. Dodd proceeds to show, that “a great revo¬ 
lution or catastrophe has completely altered the face of the earth, in that part.” 
and he adds, “the repetition of the usual phenomena of nature, for a thousand 
centuries, would not have produced these effects.” Excepting volcanic pheno¬ 
mena on a large scale, we know of no existing power, he says, capable of pro¬ 
ducing such effects. The present Geological appearances, are such as indicate 
the action of an enormous and sudden power, operating as great and sudden 
changes The cause, he believes, to be, a power acting from the central regions 
of the globe, towards its circumference, elevating the strata, and in the focus of 
its action not only raising, but shattering and loosening them: thus rendering 
them a prey to the flood, occasioned by the convulsion. 
