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then shone everywhere in the sun, slowly filled 

 with deposited, outspreading soil, and vanished. 

 Elm avenues now arch where the low-growing 

 willow drooped across the canal, and a populous 

 village stands upon the seat of a primitive and 

 forgotten colony. 



A live beaver is more valuable to mankind 

 than a dead one. As trappers in all sections of 

 the country occasionally catch a beaver, it is 

 probable that there still are straggling ones scat- 

 tered along streams all the way from salt water 

 up to timber-line, twelve thousand feet above sea- 

 level. These remaining beaver may be extermin- 

 ated ; but if protected they would multiply and 

 colonize stream-sources. Here they would prac- 

 tise conservation. Their presence would reduce 

 river and harbor appropriations and make rivers 

 more manageable, useful, and attractive. It would 

 pay us to keep beaver colonies in the heights. 

 Beaver would help keep America beautiful. A 

 beaver colony in the wilds gives a touch of ro- 

 mance and a rare charm to the outdoors. The 

 works of the beaver have ever intensely interested 

 the human mind. Beaver works may do for 

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