GENERAL REMARKS 
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of Lapland. Their fur is in general of a yellow or tawny colour, 
but fome are whitifh. The Laplanders often fhoot the wolves, 
but more frequently catch them in traps: the fkins are dried for 
fale. 
The fox is an animal of which Finmark produces a variety, and 
in the greatefl numbers. Some of them are red, others red with 
a black crofs ; others quite black, and fome black with long hairs 
on the back, which are of a filver colour at their extremities. 
The fkins of thefe lafl, well known by the name of the Jtlver- 
haired fox, are greatly valued all over Europe; and, by an order 
iffued in 1652, were referved for his Danifh MajeftyYufe only. 
At prefent they are fold to any purchafer, and chiefly to the Ruf¬ 
fian merchants, who import them into their own country, where 
they are employed to ornament the drefles of the firft perfonages 
of the Ruffian empire. Befidcs thefe already fpecified, there are 
found white foxes with black ears and feet, having white tails 
with black hairs intermixed. The fox is traced in the fnow, and 
followed by the Laplander till within gun fhot. Sometimes he 
is decoyed to a fpot where flefli has been buried under the fnow 
with a view of alluring him ; and while he is eagerly digging 
for the bait which he has fcented, the hunter from his conceal¬ 
ment fires upon him. This kind of chafe is ufually pradtifed in 
the night when the moon fhines, or by the light of the aurora 
borealis, which is peculiarly bright in this climate. The fox is 
likewife dug out of his earth; and a variety of flratagems and 
devices are called in aid to bring him into the power of his per- 
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