long. It was about fifty feet below the main pond 

 and sixty feet distant from the south side of it. 

 Fifty feet of the new dam ran north and south, 

 parallel to the old one; then, forming a right 

 angle, it extended thirty-five feet toward the east. 

 It averaged three feet in height, being made al- 

 most entirely of large chunks, dead-tree cuttings 

 from six to fifteen inches in diameter and from 

 two to twelve feet long. It appeared a crude 

 windrow of dead-timber wreckage. 



The day it was completed the builders shifted 

 the scene of activity to the brook, a short dis- 

 tance below the point where it emerged from the 

 main pond. Here they placed a small dam across 

 it and commenced work on a canal, through 

 which they endeavored to lead a part of the waters 

 of the brook into the reservoir which their dead- 

 wood dam had formed. 



There was a swell or slight rise in the earth of 

 about eighteen inches between the reservoir and 

 the head of the canal that was to carry water 

 into it. The swell, I suppose, was not considered 

 by the beavers. At any rate, they completed 

 about half the length of the canal, then appar- 



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