gEAVER* 
have expended large sums on curiosities, and 
pleasure," concludes Mr. Cartwright, 44 I 
greatly wonder, that no one, out of so many 
who have parks well walled round — for no 
other fence will do— with convenient ponds in 
them, have heen curious enough to establish a 
colony of Beavers I which might easily be 
done, by planting plenty of Birch, Aspen, Ash, 
Willow, Sallow, Osier, Alder, and other such 
trees, round the ponds, according to the nature 
of the soil, and procuring a few pairs to turn in* 
But care should be taken to have pairs of the 
same family, lest they all turn Hermits!" 
In Mr. Cartwright's account of the Beaver, 
we trace but little of that wonderful skill and 
sagacity for which this animal has been so pro- 
digiously extolled. Far from beholding the 
Beavers form a social compact, and exhibit all 
the policy of a rational republic, as gravely 
related by some respectable writers; we do 
not even perceive them cutting down trees of 
greater bulk than a Man's body, and throwing 
them across a stream to make their extensive- 
dams — pointing, and placing as rows of piles, 
large limbs lopped of their boughs, and dig- 
ging holes in the bed of the river to receive 
them 
