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fome of them red, others yellow and blew) curious bags 
or pouches, in works like Turkic-work} 
The Beaver, Canis Ponticus, AmpJiybious? 
The Beaver, whofe old ones are as big as an Otter, or 
rather bigger, a Creature of a rare inftin6t, as may appar- 
ently be feen in their artificial Dam-heads to raife the 
water in the Ponds where they keep, and their houfes 
having three Itories, which would be too large to dif- 
courfe. 2 They have all of them four Cods hanging out- 
wardly between their hinder legs, two of them are foft or 
oyly, and two folid or hard; the Indians fay they are 
Hermaphrodites. 
For Wind in the Stomach. 
Their folid Cods are much ufed in Phyfick : Our Englijli- 
women in this Country ufe the powder grated, as much as 
will lye upon a milling in a draught of Fiol Wine, for 
Wind in the Stomach and Belly, and venture many times 
in fuch cafes to give it to Women with Child: Their 
Tails are flat, and covered with Scales without hair, [19] 
which being flead oft', and the Tail boiled, proves exceed- 
ing good meat, being all Fat, and as fweet as Marrow. 
1 The author's account of the Indian works in birch-bark and porcupine-quills 
is much fuller in his Voyages, p. 143. 
2 Wood's account is far better. — Ne%v-Eng. Prospeff, chap. vii. See page 53 
of the Rarities for mention of the musk quash. 
