LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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 — Hydrocharus 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 Company's Beaver Token 112 



