THE BEAVER. 45, 
is placed on the margin of a lake, I think it will 
invariably be found to be at the mouth of a small 
brook running out of the lake, and vice versa.” 
Pennant, or rather his editor, refers to a complete 
head of a Beaver, with the teeth entire, which was 
found in the peat at Romsey, Hants,* and Mr. F. 
CRANIUM OF BEAVER FROM THE FENS. UNDER SURFACE. (3 NAT. SIZE). 
Buckland has a fine specimen of a Beaver’s jaw, 
which was dug up in a fen in Lincolnshire ; various 
portions of the skeleton have been discovered in 
Kent’s Hole, Devonshire, the only British cave which 
has yielded the remains of this animal. + 
* “ British Zoology,” vol. i. p. 60, note (ed. 1812). 
+ Pengelly onthe Ossiferous Caverns of Devonshire, ‘‘ Report Brit. 
Assoc. 1869,” p. 208, and 1877, pp. 1-8. 
