. Three travels throughout the interior parts of North-America for more then [sic] five thousand miles [microform] : containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions ... : and a appendix describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements. Indians of North America; Biology; Zoology; Indiens; Biologie; Zoologie. 262 CAKVER'5 TRAVELS. M â ^.l^mâ fn m. however, are confulerably fiiortcr. Its ears are fiiort, broad, and roundifh, and its eyes Oiine in ihe night
. Three travels throughout the interior parts of North-America for more then [sic] five thousand miles [microform] : containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions ... : and a appendix describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements. Indians of North America; Biology; Zoology; Indiens; Biologie; Zoologie. 262 CAKVER'5 TRAVELS. M â ^.l^mâ fn m. however, are confulerably fiiortcr. Its ears are fiiort, broad, and roundifh, and its eyes Oiine in ihe night like thofe of a cat. The whole body is covered with I'ur of a brownifli fallow color, and there are fon'.e in the more northern parts which are black ; the iking of the latter are of much greater value than the oth- ers. The tail is covered with long hair, which makes it appear thicker than it really is* Its iiefh is fomc- timcs eaten, but is not in any p;reat efleem. The MUSQtTASH, or MUSK-RAT, Is fotcrm- cd for thccxquiiite muik which it affords. It appears to be a diminutive of the beaver, being endowed with all the properties of that fagacious animal, and wants not hi n- but fizc and ftrength, being not much bigger than a large rat of the Norway breed, to rival the creature it fo much refembles. Was it not for its tail, which is exactly the fame as that of an Europe- an rat, the ftrud^ure of their bodies is fo much alike, efpccially the ii?ad, that it might be taken for x\ fmall beaver. Like that creature it builds itfelf a cabin,but of a lefs pcrfc<SV coiiftru£lion, and takes up its abode near the fide of fomc piece of water. In the fpring they leave their retreats, and in pairs fubfift on leaves 3iid roots till the fummer comes on, when they feed on ftrawbcrrles, ralherries, and fuch other fruits as they can reach. At the approach ofwinter they fep- arate, when each takes up its lodging apart by iti'clf in fomc hollow of a tree, where they remain quite un- provid
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