. An historical and descriptive account of British America [microform] : comprehending Canada Upper and Lower, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, and the fur countries, their history from the earliest settlement, the statistics and topography of each district, their commerce ... : to which is added a full detail of the principles and best modes of emigration. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 244 11 NOTICES REGARDING THE PRINCIPAL 1 »*â k ⢠* ,1 â -, it'- â â (, it,' 11 U. ears and tail, and i
. An historical and descriptive account of British America [microform] : comprehending Canada Upper and Lower, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, and the fur countries, their history from the earliest settlement, the statistics and topography of each district, their commerce ... : to which is added a full detail of the principles and best modes of emigration. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 244 11 NOTICES REGARDING THE PRINCIPAL 1 »*â k ⢠* ,1 â -, it'- â â (, it,' 11 U. ears and tail, and in their larger and stronger claws, by wliich they are well fitted for digging under ground. These animals are rather characteristic of districts lying to the north of those witli the natural history of which we are here engaged,âthe Hudson's Bay species being indeed one of the most northerly of known quadruped . It does not appear to have l)een as yet met with in the interior parts of th^ country, but inhabits Labrador, Hudson's Straits, the coast from Churchill to the ex- tremity of Melville Peninsula, and the desolate islands of the Polar Sea. Its natural habits are but imperfectly ascertained , but Ileame states, that it is so easily tamed, that, if captured even when full grown, it will in a day or two become so reconciled to captivity as voluntarily to creep into its master's bosom. It has no external ears, and scarcely any tail, and (a character by which it pro- bably stands as yet distinguished from all other known animals) a pair of claws upon the middle ;'*" The genus M us, though still of great extent, is now restricted to the rats and mice properly so called, an omnivorous and troublesome race, which, though not indigenous to America, have pertinaciously followed man in his almost universal migrations, and have now colonized extensively throughout the Western World. Indeed, wherever European nations have won their way, tiiese small but adv
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