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Manus , 6W?. IX, fays, that Beavers are found 
in the Ihr a, and the Danube, particularly in a fmall 
River near Leipheim , called the Biber. The Com- 
mentator faith this River hath its Name from the 
vaft Numbers which were formerly found there- 
abouts, Biber being German for a Beaver , but 
that now they are all deftroy’d, and none to be found 
in the Danube , except in Aujlria\ that there are a 
few in fome Rivers in Switzerland , in Poland, in 
Mufcovy , in the JVolga , in the Wejl-Indies, efpe- 
cially in Canada. The greateft Quantity of Cajlor , 
which is brought to England, comes from Maryland, 
New- England, and Hudfon's-Bay. 
In SeB. XI, Marius tells a Story of a peculiar 
Vertue in the Fur of t\\eBeaver, which he had from 
a Jew, who inform’d him, that by wearing on one’s 
Head a Cap made of the Fur of the Beaver, and 
by anointing the Head once a Month with Oil of 
Cajlor , and taking two or three Ounces of Cajlor in 
a Year, one’s Memory will be fo ftrengthen’d, as to 
be able to remember every thing one reads. Though 
this feems to be only a fuperftitious Fancy, yet I 
mention it, becaufe probably fuch a Notion might 
have at firft brought theUfe of the Flock of this Ani- 
mal into Requeft for making Hats. 
In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences at 
Paris, for the Year 1704, pag. 48, & feq. is an 
Extract of a Letter from M. Sarrajin, the King’s 
Phyfician in Canada, concerning the Anatomy of 
the Beaver, dated OB oh. 15, 1700, at Quebec. 
He fays, the largeft are three or four Feet long, and 
about a Foot or fifteen Inches broad in the Cheft, 
and in the Handles, that they commonly weigh 
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