38 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
exhibits the most enchanting views, in which the 
grand features of the mountains are most happily 
blended with the softer woodland scenery of the 
yale. On either side the river, rude rocks rear their 
naked heads, a scanty covering of underwood com- 
mences half way down, which, increasing as it 
descends, intermixed with rock, clothes the bottom 
through which the river winds. In the midst of 
this luxuriant wood, a stone bridge of one large arch 
is seen crossing the stream. This bridge is called 
Pont Llyn ar Avange, or the Bridge of the Beavers’ 
Pool, from its situation at the head of a deep pool in 
the river Conway, in old times frequented by those 
animals.” He adds, “One part of Nant Francon is 
named Sarn ar Avange, or the Beavers’ Dam: and it 
is improbable that a people would not only have a 
name for an animal in their language, but actually 
assign the places frequented by them, unless such 
animal had existed in that country.” 
Amongst the Welsh historians, Sir John Price 
and Humphry Llwyd have both noticed the former 
existence of the Beaver in Wales. The first- 
nained of these authorities, Sir John Price, is the | 
author of a description of Cambria that is usually _ 
found annexed to the History of Wales, contimued 
from Caradoc of Llancarvon, the contemporary of 
Geoffrey of Monmouth. This description of the 
Cambrian principality by Sir John Price was written 
in the time of Henry VIII, and was afterwards 
augmented by Humphry Llwyd, Gent., of Denbigh, 
who died in 1568. The work in consequence did not 
