Quindecemviri Quinten. over the sacrifices. They were also the interpreters of the Sybil's books; which, however, they never consulted but by an express order of the senate. QUINQUAGENARIUS, in Roman antiquity, an officer who bad the command of 50 men. QUINQUAGESIMA SUNDAY, Shrove Sunday, so called as being about the 50th day before Easter. QUINQUÀTRIA, or QUINQUATRUS, was a festival kept at Rome in honour of Minerva, which began on the 18th of March, or, as others will have it, on the 19th, and lasted five days. On the first day they offered sacrifices and oblations without the effusion of blood; the second, third, and fourth, were spent in shows of gladiators; and on the fifth day they went in procession through the city. Scholars had a vacation during the solemnity, and presented their masters at this time with a gift or fee, called Minerval. Boys and girls used now to pray to the goddess Minerva for wisdom and learning, of which she had the patronage. Plays were acted, and disputations held, at this feast, on subjects of polite literature. The quinquatria were so called, because they lasted for five days. There seems to be a strong resemblance betwixt this festival and the panathenæa of the Greeks. QUINQUENNALIS, in Roman antiquity, a magistrate in the colonies and municipal cities of that empire, who had much the same office as the ædile at Rome. QUINQUEREMIS, in the naval architecture of the ancients, is a name given to a galley which had five rows of oars. They divided their vessels in general in*See Poly- to monocrota and polycrota*. The former had only one creta, tire of rowers: the latter had several tires of them, from two or three up to 20, 30, or even 40; for such a vessel we have an account of in the time of Philopater, which required no less than 4000 men to row it. Meibom has taken off from the imaginary improbability of there ever having been such a vessel, by reduing the enormous height supposed necessary for such a number of rows of oars and men to work them, by finding a better way of placing the men than others had thought of. The quinqueremes of the ancients had 420 men in each; 300 of which were rowers, and the rest soldiers. The Roman fleet at Messina consisted of 330 of these ships; and the Carthaginian, at Lilybæum, of 350 of the same size. Each vessel was 150 feet long. Thus 130,000 men were contained in the one, and 150,000 in the other, with the apparatus and provisions necessary for such expeditions as they were intended for. This gives so grand an idea of the ancient naval armaments, that some have questioned the truth of the history but we find it related by Polybius, an historian too authentic to be questioned, and who expresses his wonder at it while he relates it. : QUINQUEVIRI, in Roman antiquity, an order of five priests, peculiarly appointed for the sacrifices to the dead, or celebrating the rites of Erebus. QUINQUINA. See CINCHONA, BOTANY and MATERIA MEDICA Index. QUINSY, or QUINZY. See MEDICINE, N° 177 183. QUINTEN, a town of France, in the department of Côtes de Nord, with a handsome castle. It is seated in a valley near the river Guy, and near a large forest of the same name, eight miles south of St Brieux, and 200 west of Paris. It had formerly the title of a Quinten duchy. W. Long. 2. 40. N. Lat. 48. 26. QUINTESSENCE, in Chemistry, a preparation con- Quintilian, sisting of the essential oil of some vegetable substance, mixed and incorporated with spirit of wine. QUINTESSENCE, in Alchemy, is a mysterious term, signifying the fifth or last and highest essence of power in a natural body.—Or when divested of its alchemistical signification, and employed to express something that is intelligible, the word denotes merely the highest state of purification in which any body can be exhibited. QUINTAL, the weight of 100 lbs. in most countries, but in England it is the cwt. or 112 lbs. Quintal was formerly used for a weight of lead, iron, or other common metal, usually equal to 100 lbs. at six scores to the hundred. QUINTILE, in Astronomy, an aspect of the planets when they are 72 degrees distant from one another, or a fifth part of a zodiac. QUINTILIANUS, MARCUS FABIUS, a celebrated Latin orator, and the most judicious critic of his time, was a native of Calagurris, or Calahorra, in Spain; and was the disciple of Domitius Afer, who died in the year 59. He taught rhetoric at Rome for 20 years with great applause: and not only laid down rules for speaking, but exhibited his eloquence at the bar. Some authors imagine, but with little foundation, that he arrived at the consulship; but it is more certain that he was preceptor to the grandsons of the emperor Domitian's sister. There is still extant his excellent work, intitled, Institutiones Oratoriæ, which is a treatise of rhetoric in 12 books; where his precepts, judgment, and taste, are justly admired. These institutions were found entire by Poggius, in an old tower of the abbey of St Gal, and not in a grocer's shop in Germany as some authors have asserted. There is also attributed to Quintilian a dialogue De causis corruptæ eloquentiæ; but it is more commonly ascribed to Tacitus. The best editions of Quintilian's works are those of Mr Obreight, publisbed at Strasburg in 2 vols 4to, in 1698, and of M. Capperonier, in folio. There is an English translation by Mr Guthrie. Quintilian had a son of the same name, on whom he bestows great praises. This son ought not to be confounded with Quintilian the father, or rather the grandfather, of him who is the subject of this article, and who wrote 145 declamations. Ugolin of Parma published the first 136 in the 15th century; the nine others were published in 1563 by Peter Ayrault, and afterwards by Peter Pithou in 1580. There have also been 19 other declamations printed under the name of Quintilian the Orator; but, in the opinion of Vossius, they were written neither by that orator nor his grandfather. QUINTILIANS, a sect of ancient heretics, thus called from their prophetess Quintilia. In this sect the women were admitted to perform the sacerdotal and episcopal functions. They attributed extraordinary gifts to Eve for having first eaten of the tree of knowledge; told great things of Mary the sister of Moses, as having been a prophetess, &c. They added, that Philip the deacon had four daughters, who were all propbetesses, and were of their sect. In these assemblies it was usual to see the virgins entering in white robes, personating prophetesses. QUINTIN tin used at funerals, Ollus Quiris letho datus est, that each Quirites private citizen was also called Quiris. QUINTIN MATSYS, also called the Farrier of Antwerp, famous for being transformed, by the force of tes. love, from a blacksmith to a painter. He had followed the trade of a blacksmith and farrier for near twenty years; when falling in love with a painter's daughter who was very handsome, and disliked nothing but his trade, he quitted it, and betook himself to painting, in which he made very great progress. He was a diligent and careful imitator of ordinary life, and succeeded better in representing the defects than the beauties of nature. Some historical performances of this master deserve commendation, particularly a Descent from the Cross, in the cathedral at Antwerp: but his best known picture is that of the two Misers in the gallery at Windsor. He died in 1529. QUINTINIE, JOHN DE LA, a celebrated French gardener, born at Poictiers in 1626. He was brought up to the law; and acquitted himself so well at the bar as to acquire the esteem of the chief magistrate. M. Tamboneau, president of the chamber of accounts, engaged him to undertake the preceptorship of his only son, which Quintinie executed entirely to his satisfaction; applying his leisure hours to the study of writers on agriculture, ancient and modern, to which he had a strong inclination. He gained new lights by attending his pupil at Italy; for all the gardens about Rome being open to him, he failed not to add practice to his theory. On his return to Paris, M. Tamboneau gave up the management of his garden entirely to him; and Quintinie applied so closely to it, that he became famous all over France. Louis XIV. erected a new office purposely for him, that of director of the royal fruit and kitchen gardens; and these gardens, while he lived, were the admiration of the curious. He lived to a good old age; we have not learned the time of his death; his Directions for the management of Fruit and Kitchen Gardens bave been much esteemed. QUINTUS CALABER, a Greek poet, who wrote a large Supplement to Homer's Iliad, in 14 books, in which a relation is given of the Trojan war from the death of Hector to the destruction of Troy. It is conjectured, from his style and manner, that he lived in the fifth century. Nothing certain can be collected either concerning his person or country. His poem was first made known by Cardinal Bessarion, who discovered it in St Nicolas's church, near Otranto in Calabria; from whence the author was named Quintus Calaber. It was first published at Venice by Aldus, but it is not said in what year. QUINTUS CURTIUS. See CURTIUS. QUIRE OF PAPER, the quantity of 24 sheets. QUIRINALIA, in antiquity, a feast celebrated among the Romans in honour of Romulus. QUIRITES, in Roman antiquity. In consequence of the agreement entered into by Romulus and Tatius king of the Sabines, Rome was to retain its name, taken from Romulus, and the people were to be called Quirites, from Cures, the principal town of the Sabines, a name used in all public addresses to the Roman people. -Dion. Hal. says, that each particular citizen was to be called Romanus, and the collective body of them Quirites; yet it appears by this ancient form of words The origin of the word Quirites, which was at first Quito. peculiar to the Sabines, and became, in Romulus's time, the general name of the inhabitants of Rome, has been much sought for; and the most probable account antiquity gives us of it, is this: The word Quiris, according to Plutarch and some others, signified in the Sabine language, both " a dart," and "a warlike deity armed with a dart." It is uncertain whether the god gave name to the dart, or the dart to the god. But be that as it will, this Quiris, or Quirinus, was either Mars or some other god of war; and the worship of Quiris continued in Rome all Romulus's reign: but after his death he was honoured with the name Quirinus, and took the place of the god Quiris. QUIRK, in a general sense, denotes a subtilty or artful distinction. QUIRK, in building, a piece of ground taken out of any regular ground-plot, or floor: thus, if the groundplot were oblong or square, a piece taken out of a corner to make a court or yard, &c. is called a quirk. QUISQUALIS, a genus of plants belonging to the decandria class, and in the natural method ranking under the 31st order, Vepreculæ. See BOTANY Index. QUITO, a town of South America, in Peru (see PERU), seated between two chains of high mountains called Cordillera de los Andes, on much higher ground than the rest of habitable Peru. It is 300 yards higher than the level of the sea according to the exactest observations. The town is 1600 yards long and 1200 broad, and is the seat of a bishop. It contains about 50,000 inhabitants, one-third of whom are originally Spaniards. Among the inhabitants are some persons of high rank and distinction, descended either from the original conquerors, or persons who at different times came from Spain invested with some lucrative post. The number of these, however, is but small. The commonalty, besides Spaniards, consist of Mestizos, Indians, and Negroes; but the last are not proportionally numerous. Merchandises and commodities of all sorts are extremely dear, partly on account of the difficulty of bringing them. There are several religious communities at Quito, and two colleges or universities governed by Jesuits and Dominicans. The principal courts held at Quito are that of the royal audience, which consists of the president, who is governor of the province with regard to law affairs; four auditors, who are at the same time civil and criminal judges; a royal fiscal, who, besides the causes brought before the audience, takes cognizance of every thing relating to the revenue; and an officer styled the protector of the Indians, who solicits for them, and when they are injured pleads in their defence. The next is the treasury, the chief officers of which are an accountant, a treasurer, and a royal fiscal. The tribunal of the Croisade, which has a commissary, who is generally some dignitary of the church, and a treasurer. There is also a treasury for the effects of persons deceased: an institution established all over the Indies, for receiving the goods of those whose lawful heirs are in Spain, in order to secure them from those accidents to which they might be liable in private hands. There is like4 H 2 wise Quotidian. ma. wise a commissary of the inquisition, with an alguazilmajor and familiars, appointed by the inquisition of LiThe corporation consists of a corregidor, two ordinary alcaldes, chosen annually, and regidores. The latter superintend the election of the alcaldes, which is attended with no small disturbance, the people being divided into two parties, the Creoles and Europeans. QUITTER-BONE. See FARRIERY, No 347. QUIT-RENT (quietus redditus, i. e. "quiet rent,") is a certain small rent payable by the tenants of manors, in token of subjection, and by which the tenant goes quiet and free. In ancient records it is called white rent, because paid in silver money, to distinguish it from rent-corn, &c. QUOAD HOC, is a term used in the pleadings and arguments of lawyers; being as much as to say, As to this thing the law is so and so. QUOIN, or COIN, on board a ship, a wedge fastened on the deck close to the breech of the carriage of a gun, to keep it firm up to the ship's side. Cantic quoins are short three-legged quoins put between casks to keep them steady. QUOINS, in Architecture, denote the corners of brick or stone walls. The word is particularly used for the stones in the corners of brick buildings. When these stand out beyond the brick-work, their edges being chamfred off, they are called rustic quoins. QUOTIDIAN, any thing which happens every day. Hence, when the paroxysins of an ague recur Quotidian every day, it is called a quotidian ague. See MEDI- 1 CINE, NO 161-164. QUOTIDIANA DECEPTIVA, See MEDICINE, N° 150. QUORUM, a word frequently mentioned in our statutes, and in commissions both of justices of the peace and others. It is thus called from the words of the commission, quorum A. B. unum esse volumus. For an example, where a commission is directed to seven persons, or to any three of them, whereof A. B. and C. D. are to be two; in this case, they are said to be of the quorum, because the rest cannot proceed without them so a justice of the peace and quorum is one without whom the rest of the justices in some cases cannot proceed. QUOTIENT, in Arithmetic, the number resulting from the division of a greater number by a smaller, and which shows how often the smaller is contained in the greater, or how often the divisor is contained in the dividend. The word is formed from the Latin quoties; q. d. How often is such a number contained in such another. In division, as the divisor is to be dividend, so is unity to the quotient. Thus the quotient of 12 divided by 3 is 4; which is thus disposed, 3) 12 (4 quotient. See ARITHMETIC. Quotient. R, Raab. R, R. or r, a liquid consonant, being the 17th letter of our alphabet. Its sound is formed by a guttural extrusion of the breath vibrated through the mouth, with a sort of quivering motion of the tongue drawn from the teeth, and canulated with the tip a little elevated towards the palate. In Greek words it is frequently aspirated with an h after it, as in rhapsody, rhetoric, &c. otherwise it is always followed by a vowel at the beginning of words and syllables. In the notes of the ancients, R. or RO. signifies Roma, R. C. Romana civitas; R. G. C. rei gerendæ causa; R. F. E. D, recte factum et dictum; R. G. F. regis filius; R. P. res publica, or Romani principes, and R. R. R. F. F. F. res Romana ruet ferro, fame, flamma. Used as a numeral, R anciently stood for 80; and with a dash over it thus R, for 80,000; but the Greek r, g, with a small mark over it, signified 100; with the same mark under it, it denoted 1000 X 10; thus ९ ૐ signifies 100,000. In the Hebrew numeration denoted 200 and with two horizontal points over it 1000 X 200; thus 200,000. In the prescriptions of physicians, R or R stands for recipe, i. e." take.” RAAB, a town of Lower Hungary, capital of Javern, with a castle and a bishop's see. It is a strong Raab frontier bulwark against the Turks, and has two bridges, one over a double ditch, and another that leads towards Alba Regalis. The surrounding country is plain, and Rabat there is nothing that seems to command it but a small hill at some distance, which is undermined and may be. blown up. It was taken by Amurath III. with the loss of 20,000 men; but was surprised soon after by Count Palfi, who killed all the Turks that were found therein. It is seated at the confluence of the rivers Rab and Rabnitz, not far from the Danube, 32 miles west of Gran, and 55 south-east of Vienna. E. Long. 17. 25. N. Lat. 47. 48. The RABAC, a small port on the Arabian coast of the Red sea, in N. Lat. 22° 35′ 40′′, by Mr Bruce's account. The entry to the harbour is from the E. N. E. and is about a quarter of a mile broad. The port extends about two miles in length to the eastward. mountains are about three leagues to the north, and the town about four miles north by east from the entrance to the harbour. The water is good, and all ships may be supplied here from the wells which are in the neighbourhood of the town. The country is bare and uncultivated; but from the appearance of it, and the freshness of the water, Mr Bruce supposes that it sometimes rains among the mountains here, which is the more probable as it is considerably within the tropic. RABAT, a large and handsome sea-port town of Africa, L. at traditions, in opposition to the Caraites; who reject all Rabbinists traditions. See CARAITE. Africa, in the kingdom of Fez and province of Tremesen. It has fine mosques and handsome palaces, and is nists, seated at the mouth of the river Burrigrig, almost in the mid-way between Fez and Tangier. W. Long. 5. 28. N. Lat. 34. 40. Rabat, together with Sallee, which is opposite to it, was formerly famous for fitting out piratical vessels; but the late emperor Sidi Mahomet subdued them both, and annexed them to the empire; since which time the harbour of Rabat has been so filled with the sand washed in by the sea as to render it unfit to carry on such pira cies in future. The town of Rabat, whose walls inclose a large space of ground, is defended on the sea-side by three forts tolerably well finished, which were erected some little time ago by an English renegado, and furnished with guns from Gibraltar. The houses in general are good, and many of the inhabitants are wealthy. The Jews, who are very numerous in this place, are generally in better circumstances than those of Larache or Tangier, and their women are extremely beautiful. The castle, which is very extensive, contains a strong building, formerly used by the late emperor as his principal treasury, and a noble terrace, which commands an extensive prospect of the town of Sallee, the ocean, and all the neighbouring country. There are also the ruins of another castle, which is said to have been built by Jacob Almanzor, one of their former emperors, and of which at present very little remains but its walls, containing within them some very strong magazines for powder and naval stores. On the outside of these walls is a very high and square tower, handsomely built of cut stone, and called the tower of Hassen. From the workmanship of this tower, contrasted with the other buildings, a very accurate idea may be formed how greatly the Moors have degenerated from their former splendour and taste for architecture. RABBETTING, in Carpentry, the planing or cutting of channels or grooves in boards, &c. In ship-carpentry, it signifies the letting in of the planks of the ship into the keel; which, in the rake and run of a ship, is hollowed away, that the planks may join the closer. RABBI, or RABBINS, a title which the Pharisees and doctors of the law among the Jews assumed, and literally signifies masters or excellents. There were several gradations before they arrived at the dignity of a rabbi; which was not conferred till they had acquired the profoundest knowledge of the law and the traditions. It does not, however, appear that there was any fixed age or previous examination necessary; but when a man had distinguished himself by his skill in the written and oral law, and passed through the subordinate degrees, he was saluted a rabbin by the public voice. Among the modern Jews, for near 700 years past, the learned men retain no other title than that of rabbi, or rabbins; they have great respect paid them, have the first places or seats in their synagogues, determine all matters of controversy, and frequently pronounce upon civil affairs; they have even power to excommunicate the disobedient. RABBINISTS, among the modern Jews, an appellation given to the doctrine of the rabbins concerning RABELAIS, FRANCIS, a French writer famous for Rabbit. his facetiousness, was born at Chinon in Touraine about the year 1483. He was first a Franciscan friar; but quitting his religious habit, studied physic at Montpelier, where he took his doctor's degree. It is said, that the chancellor du Pratt having abolished the privileges of the faculty of physic at Montpelier by a decree of the parliament, Rabelais had the address to make him revoke what he had done; and that those who were made doctors of that university wore Rabelais's robe, which is there held in great veneration. Some time after, he came to Rome, in quality of physician in ordinary to Cardinal John du Bellay archbishop of Paris. Rabelais is said to have used the freedom to jeer Pope Paul III. to his face. He bad quitted his religious connections for the sake of leading a life more agreeable to his taste; but renewed them on a second journey to Rome, when he obtained, in 1536, a brief to qualify him for holding ecclesiastical benefices; and, by the interest of his friend Cardinal John du Bellay, he was received as a secular canon in the abbey of St Maur near Paris. His profound knowledge in physic rendered him doubly useful; he being as ready, and at least as well qualified, to prescribe for the body as for the soul: but as he was a man of wit and humour, many ridiculous things are laid to his charge, of which he was quite innocent. He published several things; but his chief performance is a strange incoherent romance, called the History of Gargantua and Pantagruel, being a satire upon priests, popes, fools, and knaves of all kinds. This work contains a wild, irregular profusion of wit, learning, obscenity, low concits, and arrant nonsense; hence the shrewdness of his satire, in some places where he is to be understood, gains him credit for those where no meaning is discoverable. Some allusions may undoubtedly have been so temporary and local as to be now quite lost but it is too much to conclude thus in favour of every unintelligible rhapsody; for we are not without English writers of great talents, whose sportive geniuses have betrayed them into puerilities, no less incoherent at the times of writing than those of Rabelais appear above two centuries after. He died about 1553. RABBIT, in Zoology. See LEPUS, MAMMALIA Index. The buck rabbits, like our boar cats, will kill the young ones if they can get at them; and the does in the warrens prevent this, by covering their stocks, or nests, with gravel or earth, which they close so artificially up with the hinder part of their bodies, that it is hard to find them out. They never suckle their young ones at any other time than early in the morning and late at night; and always, for eight or ten days, close up the hole at the mouth of the nest, in this careful manner, when they go out. After this they begin to leave a small opening, which they increase by degrees; till at length, when they are about three weeks old, the mouth of the hole is left wholly open that they may go out; for they are at that time grown big enough to take care of themselves, and to feed on grass. People who keep rabbits tame for profit, breed them in hutches; but these must be kept very neat and clean, else they will be always subject to diseases. Care must be taken also to keep the bucks and does apart till the latter Rabbit. latter have just kindled; then they are to be turned to the bucks again, and to remain with them till they shun and run from them. The general direction for the choosing of tame rabbits is, to pick the largest and fairest; but the breeder should remember that the skins of the silver-haired ones sell better than any other. The food of the tame rabbits may be colewort and cabbage-leaves, carrots, parsneps, apple-rinds, green corn, and vetches, in the time of the year; also vine-leaves, grass, fruits, oats, and oatmeal, milk-thistles, sow-thistles, and the like but with these moist foods they must always have a proportionable quantity of the dry foods, as hay, bread, oats, bran, and the like, otherwise they will grow pot-bellied, and die. Bran and grains mixed together have been also found to be very good food. In winter they will eat hay, oats, and chaff, and these may be given them three times a-day; but when they eat green things, it must be observed that they are not to drink at all, for it would throw them into a dropsy. At all other times a little drink serves their turn, but that must always very be fresh. When any green herbs or grass are cut for their food, care must be taken that there be no hemlock among it; for though they will eat this greedily among other things when offered to them, yet it is sudden poison to them. Rabbits are subject to two principal infirmities. First, the rot, which is caused by giving them too large a quantity of greens, or from giving them fresh gathered with the dew or rain hanging in drops upon them. Excess of moisture always causes this disease. The greens therefore are always to be given dry; and a sufficient quantity of hay, or other dry food, intermixed with them, to take up the abundant moisture of their juices. On this account the very best food that can be given them, is the shortest and sweetest hay that can be got, of which one load will serve 200 couples a year; and out of this stock of 200, 200 may be eaten in the family, 200 sold in the markets, and a sufficient number kept in case of accidents. The other general disease of these creatures is a sort of madness: this may be known by their wallowing and tumbling about with their heels upwards, and hopping in an odd manner into their boxes. This distemper is supposed to be owing to the rankness of their feeding; and the general cure is the keeping them low, and giving them the prickly herb called tare thistle to eat. The general computation of males and females is, that one buck-rabbit will serve for nine does: some allow 10 to one buck; but those who go beyond this always suffer for it in their breed. Wild rabbits are either to be taken by small cur dogs, or by spaniels bred up to the sport; and the places of hunting those who straggle from their burrows, is under close hedges or bushes, or among corn fields and fresh pastures. The owners use to course them with small greyhounds; and though they are seldom killed this way, yet they are driven back to their burrows, and prevented from being a prey to others. The common method is by nets called purse-nets, and ferrets. The ferret is sent into the hole to fetch them out; and the purse-net being spread over the hole, takes them as they come out. The ferrets mouths must be muffled, and then the rabbit gets no harm. For the more certain taking of them, it may not be improper to pitch up a hay net or two, at a small distance from the burrows that Rabbit are intended to be hunted: thus very few of the number that are attempted will escape. Some who have no ferrets smoke the rabbits out of their holes with burning brimstone and orpiment. This certainly brings them out into the nets; but then it is a very troublesome and offensive method, and is very detrimental to the place, as no rabbit will for a long time afterwards come near the burrows which have been fumed with such ingredients. The following observations on the breeding and management of rabbits and some other animals appear to us to be of such importance, that we shall give them a place in the words of the author. "In my travels through America," says the author, "I have often been surprised that no attempt has been made to introduce, for the purpose of propagation, that useful little animal, the warren rabbit, of such vast importance to the hat manufactory of England. It is chiefly owing to the fur of this animal that the English hats are so much esteemed abroad. It is a fact well known amongst the hatters, that a hat composed of one half of coney wool, one-sixth old coat beaver, one-sixth pelt beaver, and one-sixth Vigonia wool, will wear far preferable to one made all of beaver, as it will keep its shape better, feel more firm, and wear bright and black much longer. "The value of the coney wool, the produce of the united kingdom only, is not less, I will venture to say, than 250,000l. per annum; but the quantity is much diminished, owing to the banishment and persecution they meet with on every side, and so many small warrens taken in for grain land; in consequence of which it is time that some protection should be afforded, if possible, to that important branch of British manufactory (in which coney wool is used) from suffering any inconvenience in the want of so essential an article, and the accomplishment of this grand object I conceive perfectly easy. "General Observations.-When I speak of the warren rabbit, I have to observe, that there are in England, as well as in most parts of Europe, three other kinds, viz. the tame rabbit, of various colours, the fur of which is of little value, except the white; the shock rabbit, which has a long shaggy fur of little value; the bush rabbit, like those of America, which commonly sits as a hare, and the fur of which is of a rotten inferior quality. "To return to the warren rabbit.-There are two sorts in respect to colour, that is, the common gray, and the silver gray, but little or no difference in respect to the strength and felting qualities of the fur. The nature of this animal is to burrow deep in sandy ground, and there live in families, nor will they suffer one from a neighbouring family to come amongst them without a severe contest, in which the intruders are generally glad to retire with the loss of part of their coat, unless when pursued by an enemy, when they find protec tion. "It is scarcely worth while for me to mention a thing so generally known, viz. that rabbits, particularly those of the warren, are the most prolific of all other four-footed animals in the world; nor do I apprehend any difficulty would attend the exporting this little quadruped with safety to any distance, provided it |