. The western world [microform] : picturesque sketches of nature and natural history in northern and Central America. Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. I ISO THE BEAVER. he vies with the monkey in the use he can make of them. Tlie hind-feet are webbed, and with these—together with his tail, which acts as a rudder—he is enabled to swim rapidly through the water. The beaver is a rodent, with a short head and broad blunt snout, and his incisor teeth are remarkablv larire and hard, enabling him to bite through wood with wonderful. TQB BEAVKK ease and rapid
. The western world [microform] : picturesque sketches of nature and natural history in northern and Central America. Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. I ISO THE BEAVER. he vies with the monkey in the use he can make of them. Tlie hind-feet are webbed, and with these—together with his tail, which acts as a rudder—he is enabled to swim rapidly through the water. The beaver is a rodent, with a short head and broad blunt snout, and his incisor teeth are remarkablv larire and hard, enabling him to bite through wood with wonderful. TQB BEAVKK ease and rapidity. So gi-eat is their hardness, that formerly the Indians were accustomed to use them as knives for cutting bone and fashioning their horn-tipped spears. The beaver, it has been said, always chooses banks by the side of a lake or river of sufficient depth to escape being frozen to the bottom^ even during the hardest frost. Thus, he can at all times obtain a supply of water, on which his. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kingston, William H. G. , 1814-1880. London : T. Nelson
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