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verdant tapestry ; to contrive lights and outlets in the 

 walls for different purposes; to erect magazines, and 

 supply them with provisions ; to repair with diligence 

 whatever breaches may happen to the public works, 

 and re-unite themselves into one grand body for the 

 effecting in common these reparations ; are astonishing 

 marks of industry, which seem to imply in the beavers 

 a ray of that light, which raises man so far above the 

 rest of the animal creation. 



