The Russian travellers have discovered an animal in Kamtschatka, which they have called a marmot, but of which they have given us only a very slight intimation.  They tell us, that its skin resembles, at a distance, the variegated plumage of a beautiful bird; that, like the squirrel, it uses its fore-feet in eating; and that it feeds on roots, berries, and cedar-nuts.  It is worthy of remark, that the expression cedar-nuts presents a false idea; for the true cedar bears cones, and other trees, called by the name of cedars, bear berries. 

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