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A TYPICAL Musk-Rat's House (Long Island, N.Y.), 



WHICH closely resembles A VERY ROUGHLY 



MADE Beaver's Lodge, except that Reeds 

 instead of logs are used . . . .24 



Poplar Tree cut down by Beaver ... 24 



An Interesting and somewhat Unusual Type of 

 Lodge on the Edge of a Pond some Distance 



AWAY FROM ANY TrEES 25 



Shows an Island Lodge in a Pond made by the 



Beaver ........ 25 



A Dam in its early Stage of Construction, showing 

 HOW THE Sticks, chiefly Alder, are laid 

 Lengthways with the Stream ... 30 



Beaver on the Top of his Lodge . . .31 



A very much Curved Dam ..... 36 



Dam built almost entirely of Small Stones, 



weight of which seldom exceeded 4 LBS. . 37 



Where the Beaver have cut Grass for Bedding 



(Newfoundland) 37 



A Subsidiary or Supporting Dam ... 42 



Mending a Broken Dam 43 



Beaver in the Act of repairing a Break in the 



Dam ........ 48 



A Gate or Spillway cut in the Dam in order to 



LET THE Surplus Water escape ... 49 



Showing the Facing of a recently abandoned Dam 49 



