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Rh ." "Alcmæon does not advance what is true, when he avers that goats breathe through their ears."—"History of Animals." Book I. chap, xi.

  LETTER XV.

, March 30th, 1768

,—Some intelligent country people have a notion that we have in these parts, a species of the genus mustelinum, besides

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the weasel, stoat, ferret, and polecat; a little reddish beast, not much bigger than a field-mouse, but much longer, which they 