LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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A Scene in the Laurentides Frontispiece 



Figure of a Beaver from the earliest known Monograph 4 



Arme des Hurons 6 



Wonders of the New World 11 



The Beaver and His Famous Lodges (from an old print, 1755) 14 



Fiber Zibethicus — Castor Canadensis — Castoroides Ohioensis 21 



Lower Jaw of Trogontherium Cuvieri (half natural size) after Owen ... 24 



Lower Jaw of the European Beaver, from Peat Moss, Newbury, England . 30 



Fiber Zibethicus — The Musk Beaver 34 



Myopotamus Coypus — The South American Beaver 36 



The Largest Existing Rodent — Hydrochsrus Capybara 40 



The First Work of the Beaver Kitten 43 



Stump Showing Cuttings from Various Levels of Snow 47 



The Large Yellow Pond Lily (Nuphar Advena) 48 



Beaver Hunting Grounds of the Iroquois 54-55 



Map Showing Distribution of Beaver — about 1850 • 58 



The Advance of Civilization 60 



LeBeau's Marvelous Vision 65 



Stump Showing that Methods of Cutting Disagree 68 



The Beaver Canal, from " The American Beaver and his Works " . . . . 73 



Beaver Chips 78 



Fur Traders "Squatting" on the Prairie near Fort Garry, 1876 82 



Beaver Tooth Chisel, from a Specimen in the British Museum 87 



Title Page of the Original Castorologia 93 



Lower Incisor Tooth of the Beaver 96 



Dried Castoreum Pouches — " Bark Stone," or " Beaver Castors " ... 98 



Tally for Five Beavers 106 



The Hudson's Bay Company's Beaver Token 108 



The North West Companj-'s Beaver Token 112 



