The Minx May Be Made Domestick,
And Were It Not For His Paying A Visit Now And Then To The Poultry,
They Are The Greatest Destroyers Of Rats And Mice, That Are In The World.
Their Skins, If Good Of That Kind, Are Valuable, Provided They Are Kill'd
In Season.
{Water-Rats.}
The Water-Rat is found here the same as in England.
The Water-Snakes
are often found to have of these Rats in their Bellies.
{Coneys.}
That which the People of Carolina call a Hare, is nothing but a Hedge-Coney.
They never borough in the Ground, but much frequent Marshes and Meadow-Land.
They hide their Young in some Place secure from the Discovery of the Buck,
as the European Rabbets do, and are of the same Colour;
but if you start one of them, and pursue her, she takes into a hollow Tree,
and there runs up as far as she can, in which Case the Hunter makes a Fire,
and smoaks the Tree, which brings her down, and smothers her.
At one time of the Year, great Bots or Maggots breed betwixt
the Skin and the Flesh of these Creatures. They eat just as
the English ones do; but I never saw one of them fat. We fire the Marshes,
and then kill abundance.
{Rabbet English.}
The English, or European Coneys are here found, tho' but in one place
that I ever knew of, which was in Trent-River, where they borough'd
among the Rocks.
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