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turbed. There is, fays Charlevoix, a {trong inftance on the road be- 
tween Montreal and lake Huron, which travellers, through wantonnefs,. 
annually moleft; yet is always repaired by the induftrious inhabi- 
tants. ell 
In violent inundations they are fometimes overpowered in their 
attempts to divert the fury of the water. In thofe cafes they fly into 
the woods: the females return as foon as the water abates ; the males 
continue abfent till “Jy, when they come back to repair the ravages 
made in their houfes *. 
Beavers breed once a year, and bring forth the latter end of winter; 
and have two or three young at a birth. 
There is a. variety of the Beaver kind, which wants either the fa- 
gacity or the induftry of the others, in forming dams and houfes. 
Thefe are called Terriers. “They burrow in the banks of rivers, and 
make their holes beneath the freezing depth of the water, and work 
upwards for a great number of feet. Thefe alfo form their winter. 
magazines of provifion. Beavers which efcape the deftruction of a 
community, are fuppofed often to become Terriers. 
Strange animal feen by Mr. Phipps and others in Newfoundland, of 
afhining black: bigger than a Fox: fhaped like an Italian grehound : 
legs long: tail longand taper. One gentleman faw five fitting on a 
rock with their young, at the mouth of a river; often leapt in and 
dived, and brought up trouts, which they gave to their young. When 
he fhewed himfelf, they all leapt into the water, and fwam a little 
way from fhore, put their heads out of the water and looked at him. 
An old furrier faid, he remembered a fkin of one fold for five guineas. 
The French often {ee them in Hare Bay. 
Beavers have, befides man, two enemies; the Otter, and the Wol- 
verene ; which watch their appearance, and deftroy them. The laft 
is on tha: account called, in fome parts of America, the Beaver-eater. 
They are very eafily overcome; for they make no refiftance: and have 
no fecurity but in flight. 
* Charlevoiay ¥. 151>- 
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