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long on the Infide and near as broad, being fufficient 
to lodge eight or ten Beavers , and two or three 
Stories high, which they inhabit as theWater rifes or 
falls. • _ 
Sometimes they build feveral Houfes near toge- 
ther, which communicate with one another. He 
fays there are fome Beavers called ‘terriers , which 
burrow in the Earth : They begin their Hole at 
fuch a Depth underWater as they know that the 
Water will not freeze fo deep j this they carry on 
for five or fix Feet, and but juft large enough for 
them to creep through ; then they make a Bathing- 
Place three or four Feet every Wayj from whence 
they continue the Burrow, always afcending by 
Stories, that they may lodge dry as the Waters rife: 
Some of thefe Burrows have been found to be an 
hundred Feet long. They cover the Places where 
they lie with Weeds; and in Winter they make 
Chips of Wood, which ferve them for Matelas’s : 
They live on Herbs, Fruits, and Roots in Summer, 
but againft Winter they lay up a Provifion of Wood, 
a Stack of twenty-five or thirty Feet Square, and eight 
or ten high, is the ufual Quantity for eight or ten 
Beavers : They only eat thofe Pieces which are 
foak’d in the Water. The above-cited Marius 
fays, they only live on fuch Vegetable Food ; but 
his Commentator Francus fays, ad Serf. IV, that 
they prey upon Filh, Cray-fift, and Frogs likewife, 
as do Otters : And that they make Burrows in 
the Banks of the Rivers, opening under the Water. 
In the Me moires pour fervir a VHiJoire Na - 
turelle des slnimaux , compofed by Order of 
Louis XIV, printed at Paris 1671, in Folio , at 
A a pag. 
