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' They tumble and wallow in water and mire as 

 fwine, and they feed like a dog. Some fay their fle(h 

 is very good food, let who will eat it for me, who are 

 not fo nicely palated as my felf. 



The befl: finding of a Bear is with a leam-hound ; 

 and yet he who is without one may trail after a Bear as 

 we do after a Buck, or Roe, and you may lodge and hunt 

 them as you do a Buck- For the more fpeedy executi- 

 on, mingle maftiffs among your hounds •, for they will 

 pinch the Bear^ and fo provoke her to anger, until at laft 

 they bring her to the bay i or elfe drive her out of the 

 plaiti into the covert, not letting her be at reft till (lie 

 tight in her own defence. 



Of the Beaver. 



A Beaver differeth but a little from an Otter but in 

 his tail : his colour is fomewhat yellow and 

 white afperfcd with afh-colour, which (tand out be- 

 yond the Iliorter hairs, double their length i and are 

 neat and foft like an Otters. 



There is plenty of them in the liver ?o«////, vrhence 

 fhe Biaverh"^ fome is called CanU Ponticus : They are 

 alfo bred in Spain.^ fome few in France^Germany^ Tolonia^ 

 Sclavonia^ Rifjjja, PruQia^ Lithuania i and abundance of 

 rhem in New-England, 



Thefe beafis are amphibious, living both on laiid and 

 water both frefh andjalt, keeping the laft in the day- 

 time, and the tirft in the night : Without water they 

 :annot live s for they participate much of the nature 

 Df hill , which may be gathered from their tails and 

 linder-legs. 



They are about the bignefs of a country cur ; 



their 



