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 Komsey, Hants, * and Mr. F. 



CRANIUM OF BEAVER FROM THE FENS. UNDER SURFACE. ( NAT. S17K). 



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, f 



* " British Zoology," vol. i. p. 60, note (ed. 1812). 

 f Pengelly on the Ossiferous Caverns of Devonshire, " Eeport Brit. 

 Assoc. 1869," p. 208, and 1877, pp. 1-8. 



