BEAVER. 
255. 
Two cutting teeth in each jaw. 
Five toes on each foot. 
Tail compreffed, and covered with fcales. 
XXVILBEA- 
YER. 
Kurruo Arifl. bifi. An. lib. win. Caftorcaftanei coloris, caudaho- igo.C astor, 
c. 5. Oppian. Iialieut, I. 398. rizontaliter plana. Brtffbn quad. 
Fiber Plinii, lib. win. c. 30. Agri- go. 
cola An. Subt. 482 Belon Aqual . 25. Caftor Fiber. C. cauda ovata pla- 
Caitor Gefner quad. 309. Rondel, na. Lin.Jyfi. 78. Bafwer, Biur, 
236. Schoneajeld, Ictb. 34. Faun.fuec. No. 27^ 
Beaver, Raiifyn. quad. 209. Le Caftor, ou Le Bievre, de Ruf- 
Bobr Rzaczinjki Polon. 215. fon, win. 282. tab.xx.xv i. 
Biber Klein quad. 91 . Kramer Auflr. Beaver Br. Zool. I. 70. tab. ii. 
3 * 5 * 
B. with flrong cutting teeth : fhort ears, hid in the 
fur : blunt nofe : hair of a deep chefnut. brown : tail 
broad, alrnoft oval, compreffed horizontally* co¬ 
vered with fcales : the fore feet fmall; the hind 
large : length, from nofe to tail, about three feet: 
tail, eleven inches long, three broad. 
Inhabits Europe , from Lapland to Languedoc *: in 
great plenty in the North : a few are yet found in 
the Rhone the Gardon y the Danube , the Rhine y and 
th eViftula: met with in abundance in the Ruffian 
Afiatic dominions; but no where in equal muiti^ 
tudes, than in North America . 
The mod induftrious of animals : nothing equals 
the art with which they conflrucl their dwellings. 
They chufe a level piece of ground with a fmall ri¬ 
vulet running through it. This they form into a 
pond, by making a dam acrofs \ firft, by driving 
into the ground flakes five or fix feet long, placed 
* De Buffon, viii. 286. f Ibid. 
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