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NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE.
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κατα το ωτα." "Alcmæon does not advance what is true, when he avers that goats breathe through their ears."—"History of Animals." Book I. chap, xi.[e1]
note to letter xiv.
e1 ↑ Naturalists seem now agreed that the curious slits referred to in the foregoing chapter are not and cannot be used for breathing, but for some other sense of which we can but guess the nature.
LETTER XV.
Selborne, March 30th, 1768
Dear Sir,—Some intelligent country people have a notion that we have in these parts, a species of the genus mustelinum, besides
Weasel.
the weasel, stoat, ferret, and polecat; a little reddish beast, not much bigger than a field-mouse, but much longer, which they
