‘Crass I. O.eF 27 JE tR. 
they were found only in the river Teivi; two or 
three waters in that principality, {till bear the name 
of Liya yr afange *, or the beaver lake; which is a 
further proof, that thefe animals were found in dif- 
ferent parts of it: I have feen two of their fuppofed 
haunts; one in the ftream that runs thro’ Nan 
Frankon, the other in the river Conway a few 
miles above Lianrwft; and both places in all pro- 
bability had formerly been croffed by Beaver dams. 
But we imagine they muft have been very fcarce 
even in earlier times; by the laws of Hoel dda, the 
price of a beaver’s fkin (Croen Lloftlydan +) was fixed — 
at one hundred and twenty pence, a great fum in 
thofe days. . 
* Raii fyn. quad. 213. 
+ Lhflydan, thatis, the broad tailed animal. Leges Wallice, 
261. 
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