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then to another. This last was a mile from their dam. 
They began to haul wood to it. I caught none at the 
new house, but two at the first old house they fled to, and 
four at the second. I frightened them from the new 
house by paddling around it in my canoe. It was on an 
island. They work on their house, putting mud and 
sticks on it, till freezing weather. 
I will describe another dam and settlement of Beavers, 
on the Restigouche River, in the northern part of New 
Brunswick. The pond flowed was a mile long. At the 
foot of the pond was a dam five feet high. Four rods 
below was a dam three feet high which flowed back to the 
first dam, raising the water against it one and one-half 
feet. Three rods farther down the brook was a third 
dam, not more than two feet high, also flowing back to 
the dam next above. A rod or two below was a fourth 
dam, not more than one and a half feet high, which 
flowed the water back to the third dam. There were two 
beaver-houses on the pond. The new one, which was the 
one inhabited, was one-quarter of a mile above the dam. 
The old one was fifty to sixty rods farther up. I killed 
seven beavers here that winter (1852 or 1853). I cut 
the second and third dams down a little at the middle so 
as to have a running, open stream, and caught four otters 
there during the winter. 
I never saw more than one passage way to a beaver- 
3 house, but it was said that there were several to this 
use. It was, by outside measurement, twenty-one feet 
across at the base; and we judged it to be ten feet high, 
but it had the appearance of being two houses joined to- 
gether. The men who opened it said it had but one 
room, and nine beavers were in it. I don’t think the 
. — Bavor uses the tail much in swimming, but it makes 
