BEARS AND SQUIRRELS. 
liad attacked a single man in a canoe whilst 
swimming; and so very strong are they in the 
water,, that the men thus set upon., being un¬ 
armed, escape narrowly with their lives. 
The squirrels this year, contrary to the bears, 
migrated from the south, from the territorv of 
the United States. Like the bears, they took to 
the water on arriving at it, but as if conscious 
of their inability to cross a very wide piece of 
water, they bent their course towards Niagara 
River, above the falls, and at its narrowest 
and most tranquil part crossed over into the 
British territory. It was calculated, that up¬ 
wards of fifty thousand of them crossed the 
river in the course of two or three days, and 
such great depredations did they commit on 
arriving at the settlements on the opposite side, 
that in one part of the country the farmers 
deemed themselves very fortunate where they 
got in as much as one third of their crops of 
corn. These squirrels were all of the black 
kind, said to be peculiar to the continent of 
America ; they are in shape similar to the com¬ 
mon grey squirrel, and weigh from about one 
to two pounds and a half each. Some writers 
have asserted, that these animals cannot swim, 
but that when they come to a river, in migrat¬ 
ing, each one provides itself with a piece of 
wood or bark, upon which, when a favourable 
wind offers, they embark, spread their bushy 
