ss TEP NATURAL MistORY: 
Gor their leader, and go after him, whilf other 
men follow, and drive them into es or a kind 
of pound, — : | 
_ The Canada Geefe are found as far north ih 
insiietey 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 arow — 
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 ; and fometimes 
a good fhooter will kill two huitdved: in a day. 
‘The Indians keep many of them all the winter 
in a large hole dug in the sround ; ; they cover 
‘them with mould, and keep them in their feathers, 
“There is a Goole called the Ruddy Goofe : it 
‘3s ‘found in the fouthern parts of Ruffia, and of 
Siberia: in the winter’ it flies into India. It 
 nakes its neft in the craggy banks of the Wolga, 
‘and of other rivers; or in the holes of the Marmots, 
‘which they have deferted®. It forms burrows 
for pu like the Shield Sat Rs it 
aid | i | 
* The Nureot is a little animal of the Rat kind, that 
“burrows ‘under ground, and Aeeps all the winter, 
makes. 
