{Ground Squirrel.}
Ground Squirrels Are So Call'd, Because They Never Delight
In Running Up Trees, And Leaping From Tree To Tree.
They are
the smallest of all Squirrels.
Their Tail is neither so long not bushy;
but flattish. They are of a reddish Colour, and striped down each Side
with black Rows, which make them very beautiful. They may be kept tame,
in a little Box with Cotton. They and the Flying-Squirrels seldom stir out
in Cold Weather, being tender Animals.
{Fox.}
The Fox of Carolina is gray, but smells not as the Foxes
in Great-Britain, and elsewhere. They have reddish Hair about their Ears,
and are generally very fat; yet I never saw any one eat them.
When hunted, they make a sorry Chace, because they run up Trees, when pursued.
They are never to be made familiar and tame, as the Raccoon is.
Their Furs, if in Season, are used for Muffs and other Ornaments.
They live chiefly on Birds and Fowls, and such small Prey.
{Supposed Lion and Jackall.}
I have been inform'd by the Indians, that on a Lake of Water
towards the Head of Neus River, there haunts a Creature,
which frightens them all from Hunting thereabouts. They say,
he is the Colour of a Panther, but cannot run up Trees;
and that there abides with him a Creature like an Englishman's Dog,
which runs faster than he can, and gets his Prey for him. They add,
that there is no other of that Kind that ever they met withal;
and that they have no other way to avoid him, but by running up a Tree.
The Certainty of this I cannot affirm by my own Knowledge,
yet they all agree in this Story.
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