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them — wattling with smaller branches, like 
wicker work, between the piles, from end to 
end — strengthening the whole with walls of 
mud and sand, formed into an admirable mortar 
impenetrable by the water — and erecting, with 
similar materials, vast public edifices, and family 
mansions, consisting of numerous apartments, 
and crowned with elegant domes— as seems 
universally admitted by every naturalist. Yet, 
allowing for some exaggerations, the common 
result of excessive admiration, the latter ac- 
counts are, probably, not far from the fact. 
To discover, however, all these effects of the 
united energies of a republic of Beavers, we 
must resort to some spot where they have never 
yet been approached by Man ; the grand dis- 
turber of every peaceful establishment, when 
art is found to have attained an enviable height. 
The Beavers, like the Jews before their disper- 
sion, while forming a multitudinous nation, 
could produce works which, in their scattered 
state, it may seem to incredulity, on behold- 
ing the sad effects of diminished freedom, they 
were never capable of executing. In the 
country where Mr. Cartwright made his ob- 
servations on Beavers, they have long been 
subjects of human persecution; and, even 
there, 
