 | Books and bookselling - 1796 - 524 pages
...driving flakes into the ground when building their houfes, that they lay molt of the wood crofswifc, and nearly horizontal, and without any other order...leaving a hollow or cavity in the middle : when any unacceffary branches projeft inward, they cut them oft" with their teeth, and throw them in among the... | |
 | Hunting - 1796 - 426 pages
...driving flakes into the ground when building their houfes, that they lay moll or the wood crofswile, and nearly horizontal, and without any other order...leaving a hollow or cavity in the middle ; when any unneceflary branches projeft inward, they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1797 - 980 pages
...driving /lakes into the ground when building their houfes, that they lay noil of the wood crofs-wife, and nearly horizontal, and without any other order...leaving a hollow or cavity in the middle. When any unneceflary branches project, forward, they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in amor.g... | |
 | Sir John Richardson, William Swainson, William Kirby - Zoology - 1829 - 418 pages
..." So far are the beavers from driving stakes into the ground when building their houses, that they lay most of the wood crosswise, and nearly horizontal,...branches project inward, they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest, to prevent the mud from falling through the roof. It is a... | |
 | 1835 - 550 pages
...' So far are the beavers from driving stakes into the ground when building their houses, that they lay most of the wood crosswise, and nearly horizontal, and without any ether order than that of leaving a hollow or cavity in the middle. When any unnecessary branches 'project... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 566 pages
...' So far are the beavers from driving »takes into the ground when building their houses, that they lay most of the wood crosswise, and nearly horizontal, and without any "ther order than that of leaving a hollow or cavity in the middle. When any unnecessary branches "project... | |
 | Richard King - Arctic regions - 1836 - 676 pages
...driving stakes into the ground, the beaver places most of the wood crosswise, almost horizontally, and without any other order than that of leaving a hollow or cavity in the middle sufficiently capacious for his purpose. Should any unnecessary branches project inward, they cut them... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Natural history - 1842 - 726 pages
...weather. " So far are beavers from driving stakes into the ground, when building their houses, that they lay most of the wood crosswise, and nearly horizontal,...branches project inward, they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest, to prevent the mud from falling through the roof. It is a... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Natural history - 1842 - 662 pages
...weather. " So far are beavers from driving stakes into the ground, when building their houses, that they lay most of the wood crosswise, and nearly horizontal,...cavity in the middle ; when any unnecessary branches projecl inward, they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest, to pre vent the... | |
 | William Dowling - 1849 - 356 pages
...winter. So far are the beavers from driving stakes into the ground when building their houses, that they lay most of the wood crosswise, and nearly horizontal,...branches project inward, they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest to prevent the mud from falling through the roof. It is a mistaken... | |
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So far are the beavers from driving stakes into the ground when building their houses, that they lay most of the wood crosswise, and nearly horizontal, and without any other order than that of leaving a hollow or cavity in the middle. When any unnecessary... 
