10 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
for their leader, and go after him, whilft other 
men follow, and drive them into nets, or a kind 
of pound. : 
. The Canada Geefe are found as far north j in 
America as Hudfon’s Bay: they come there in 
~ April or May. ‘The inhabitants kill many thou. 
fands, and falt them, and put-them into barrels, 
When they are expected, the Indians make a row : 
of huts, of boughs, acrofs the parts which they 
fuppofe the Geefe will pafs; and as the flock flies 
over, the Indians mimick their noife ; the Geefe 
ftop in their flight, and each Indian having two 
guns, fires the one after the other; andfometimes _ 
‘a good fhooter will kill two hundred in a day, 
The Indians keep many of them all the winter 
in a large hole dug in the ground; they cover 
them with mould, and keep them in their feathers, 
There is a Goofe called the Ruddy Goofe : it 
4s found in the fouthern parts of Ruffia, and of 
~ Siberia: in the winter it flies into India, It 
makes its neft in the craggy banks of the Wolga, 
and of other rivers; orin the holes of the Marmots, _ 
‘which they have deferted *. Jt forms burrows 
for itfelf like the Shield Drake: fometimes it 

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* The Marmot i isa little animal of the Rat kind, that 
aa under ground, and fleeps all the winter, 
makes 
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