36 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
the truth we have not manie Bevers but onelie in 
the Teifie in Wales.”* The precise spot on the 
river appears to have been Kilgarran, which is 
situated on the summit of a rock at a place called 
Canarch Mawr (now Kenarth), where there is a 
salmon leap. 
Drayton, in his “ Polyolbion ” (song vi.), has thus 
versified the tradition :— 
More famous long agone, than for the salmon’s leap, 
For Beavers Tivy was, in her strong banks that bred, 
Which else no other brook of Britain nourished: 
Where Nature in the shape of this now perish’d beast 
Her property did seem to have wondrously exprest. 
There is some reason for supposing, however, that 
there were other rivers in Wales, besides the Teivi, 
which were frequented by these animals. “In the 
Conway,” says Camden, ‘is the Beavers’ pool,” anda 
portion of the river bank above Llanwrst is supposed 
to have been a Beavers’ dam. 
Sir Richard Colt Hoare, in his edition of the 
“Ttinerary” of Giraldus, remarks: “If the Castor 
of Giraldus, and the Avance of Humphrey Llwyd and 
of the Welsh dictionaries, be really the same animal, 
it certainly is not peculiar to the Teivi, but was 
equally known in North Wales, as the names of the 
places testify. A small lake in Montgomeryshire is 
called Llyn yr Afange; a pool in the river Conway, 
not far from Bettws, bears the same name (the 
Beavers’ Pool); and the name of the vale called 
Nant Ffrancon, upon the river Ogwen, in Caernar- 
* Holinshed’s “ Chronicles,” vol. i. p. 379. 
