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64. EN AMUR AR Se 
a military foree from the Romans to extirpate them. 
A Spanifh hiftorian alfo fays, that, on the difcovery ofa 
fmallifland, which they named Puerto Santo, or Holy 
Haven, where they were faved from thipwreck, they 
put a pair of rabbits on fhore, which increafed fo 
much in the courfe of a few years, that they drove a- 
way the inhabitants, by deftroying their corn and ~ 
plants, who left them to enjoy the ifland without ep-. 
pofition. . 
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MOLE. “ se 
As if nature had meant that no part of the ear 
fhould be untenanted, fo the mole is formed in fuch a 
manner, as to live entirely under ground. The fizeot 
this animal is between that of the rat and the moufe, 
but without any: refemblance of either, being quite } 
different from any other of the four footed race. Ie 
hhasa nofe like a hog, bui longer in proportion ; in- 
ftead of ears, ithas only two holes: and its eyes are fo 
remarkably fmal!, that it is with the greateft difficulty 
they are difcovered. . ee 
‘}he moderns, as wellas the ancients, were univerf- _ 
ally of opinion that the mele was'totally blind 3 but 
Dr. Derham, by the means of a microfeope, difcover= 
edall the parts of the eye known in other animals. 9°” 
A very. {mall degreetof vifion being infiicient fora 
creature deftined to a fubtéerraneors abode, providence | 
has wifely formed them ifahis manner? Pory had * 
they been larger, they would have been’ continually - 
liablé'to injury, by the earth dalling 4nto them; to - 
prevent which inconvenience, they are ikewile cov= 
ered with fur, Another wohderful contrivance, te 
be obferved: in nature’s works, ‘is, that this animal ts! 
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