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Titel

The Natural History of the BEAVER, with a finely engraved Figure of that Animal.--From Buffon. I

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• Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure, June 1747-Dec. 1803, 1772-06, Vol.50 (350), p.296-298

Ort / Verlag

London: Printed for J. Stratford

Erscheinungsjahr

1772

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• The beaver is an animal that acts by communication and intelligence. Though infinitely inferior to man, its actions suppose relative views and a settled plan of operation. Its prospects have a reference to intercourse; and their object is the construction of a mole or bank, and the elevation of a kind of hamlet.