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Title: An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies
Year: 1796 (1790s)
Authors: Winterbotham, William 1763-1829
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York : Printed by Tiebout and O'Brien, for John Reid
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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about fevcn inches long, black, and very bufhy or Ihaggy;hair about two inches long, and very coarfe ; his head fallowgrey ; back, almod black ; breaft, fpotted with white ; belly,dark brown; fides and rump, light reddifla brown. This animallives in holes, cannot run fafl, and has a clumly appearance.He is very mifchievous to hunters, following them when fel-ting their traps, deflroying their game, particularly the beaver;found as far north as the Copper river; and louth, as thecountry between lake Hudfon and lake Superior; and on theweflern fide of North-America, in Canada, and the northerriStates they are very numerous. Raccoon,—This animal is found in all the temperate parts ofNorth-America. It is found alfo in the mountains of Jamaica,from whence great numbers of them frequently defcend into theplantations, and make great havoc among the lugar canes, of\vhich they are pjjrticularly fond. The planters ccnfider thefeanimals as their greatefl enemies, as they frequently do infinite
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OF AMERICAN QUADRUPEDS, 343 mifchief in one nights excurfion : they have contrived variousmethods of deftroying them, yet ftlU they propagate in fuchnumbers, that neither trapss nor fire arms can repel them. The raccoon is fomewhat Icfs than the badger: its head re-fembles that of a fox, but its cars are round and much fhorter,and its upper jaw very pointed, and longer than the lower :its eyes, which are large, are iurrounded with two broad patchesof black ; its body is thick and fhort, covered with long hair,black at the points, and grey underneath ; its tail is long andbufliv, and m^ked with alternate rings of black and white ; itsfeet and toes arc black. The raccoon is very aftive and nimble : its claws which are ex-tremely fharp, enable it to climb trees with great facility. Itmoves forward chiefly by bounding, and though it proceeds inan oblique diredlion, runs very fwiftly. ANIMALS OF THE DOG KIND. Wolf.—Of this animal, which is of the dog kind, or rather thedog himfclf in his

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