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Creature •, and flill more fo in Proportion to the 
Sagacity with which it is Paid he is endowed. 
Thefe are the moft remarkable Particulars I met 
with in reading over the above-mentioned Books. I 
fhall now add only fuch as they have pafs’d over, or 
what efpecially regard the Sex of this Femal cBeaver. 
This Creature was kept at the Honourable Sir 
Hans Sloane’ s, in his Garden, for about three Months. 
She was but about half grown, not being above zz 
Inches long from theNofeto the Root of the Tail ; 
the Tail 8 Inches long. She was very thick, paunch- 
bellied ; the Shape of the Head, and indeed of the 
whole Animal, except the Tail, and Hind-feet, very 
much refembled a great over-grown Water-Rat.. 
Her Food was Bread and Water; fome Willow- 
Boughs were given her, of which fhe eat but little ; 
but when fhe was loofe in the Garden, fhe feem'd to 
like the Vines much, having gnawn feveral of them 
as high as fhe could reach quite down to the Roots : 
She gnawed the Jeffamy likewife, but leaf! of all fome 
Holly Trees. I am told that in Carolina they particu- 
larly love the Sajfafras, and will cut down Trees of 
between z and 3 Feet Diameter. She was turned into a 
Fountain with fome live Flounders, but never offer'd 
to ftrike at them, as an Otter would have done. When 
lhe eat, fhe always fate on her hind Legs, and held the 
Bread in her Paws like a Squirrel. When fhe flept 
fhe commonly lay upon her Belly, with her Tail 
under her. In fwimming fhe held her Fore-feet 
clofe up under her Throat, and the Claws clofed, as 
when one brings the Ends of one's Thumb and of all 
the Fingers clofe together, never moving her Fore- 
feet ’till fhe came to the Side, and endeavour’d to 
get out, She fwamwith her Hind-feet only, which 
A a z had 
