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bious : such is the otter, which by nature 

 is so well formed for diving, that it makes" 

 great havock among the inhabitants of the 

 waters. Not supposing that we had any 

 of those beasts in our shallow brooks, I 

 was much pleased to see a male otter 

 brought to me, weighing twenty-one 

 pounds, that had been shot on the bank of 

 our stream below the Priory, where the 

 rivulet divides the parish of Selborne from 

 Harteley-Vuood, 



