The lynx.

The fox.

The weasel and marten.

The mink. The otter.

The hare and the squirrels.

The birds.

Win ter activities.

Fur- trapping.

Making map/e sugar.

of poor Bruin’s destruction. [pp. 85-86] The Lynx or Lucifee, or more properly the Loup-cervier is in the doomed list of animals. The fur is of little or no value,—the animal itself without one redeeming quality,—and as it is an animal dangerous and terrible, armed with strong and sharp talons, destroying game and attacking sheep- the sooner the last is killed the better.

The Foxes are great favourites, they have skins on them that fetch money, and their habits are harmless, as a general rule—indeed it is rather a pleasure to lose a goose or two by a fox, it gives scope and hope to the gunner, and should he be a RED, his skin is worth half a dozen geese; if a PATCH he is worth a cow; if 3 BLACK PATCH, or SILVER GREY, he is worth a horse: and if a real BLACK, a horse and sleigh and harness, whip and all, is not too high an estimate. 80 there is some interest connected with the fox, and provided he gets caught, he is forgiven a good many larder sins of commission. [pp. 86-87]

The Ermine is a beautiful little animal, but is not common—indeed there is a superstition connected with the killing it . It is known commonly as the white weasel. The Marten is also a weasel, it is like a Sable, and is valuable for its fur. It is a brave little animal, facing the fierce Lynx, and remaining master of the field. The Minx, or white throated Sable is good for fur, but varies very much in quality; it feeds on fish, and is very destructive to mill dams, which it perforates; Otters are getting very scarce now, but their fur is highly esteemed. [p. 87]

The American Hare is plenty here, but it is not much valued .

To finish our list of the native quadrupeds we have to mention the Muskrat, Musquash, or Mudcat; it is by no means plentiful, but the fur is useful and saleable . The red Squirrel is here, and the ground Squirrel, and the flying Squirrel, whose fur is as soft as a mole’s, . [pp. 87-88]

The birds of Prince Edward Island, are now for the first time attempted to be enumerated; the object in view is to make a good beginning, and thereby to induce a

taste for investigation. [He goes on to list under their English and Latin names forty-six species, many of them forest dwellers or tree nesters. The ’Partridge Tetrao umbellus’ is

present, but notably absent from his list is the passenger pigeon] [p. 88]

[In the season of snow] nature bridges over the rivers, and connects their opposite banks with her far-reaching and trackless sheets of ice, and the woods disgorge their fuel and their timber were by tons, to glide over the ice king’s acres towards the homes of families and the haunts of industry. The fox, the otter, and the bear, the minx, the muskrat, and sable, become objects of value to the hunter,

[pp. 103-104]

Before the snow has left the woods, the sap of the rock or sugar maple is an object of some interest in districts where they have been spared in sufficient numbers to furnish the requisite quantity for sugar making. [p. 1051

[Remembering] the wood hauling month of January, and having cut and hauled the necessary fencing poles in March, [we] are content to enter botanical May with the flowers of the maple, the birch, the beech, and the poplar [p. 106]

The following list is divided into the flowering months to begin a botany for Prince Edward Island, imperfectly it is true, as a chapter of her progress and prospects in the botanical characteristics of her fruitful soil. But without the assistance of the Herbarum peristus of Charlottetown, John Lawson, Esquire, the author would not have

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