of Scotland, on many accounts, is the beaver, (_Castor Europæus_,) already referred to among the mammals of the primeval transition. Its remains have been discovered under circumstances indicative of equal antiquity with the extinct mammoth, (Owen, p. 191.) But their most frequent situation is at the bottom of the peat-bog; as in the Newbury peat-valley, where they were found twenty feet below the present surface, associated with the remains of the wild-boar, roebuck, goat, deer, and wolf. Fine specimens of a skull, under-jaw, and haunch bone, found in Perthshire, and now in the Museum of the Scottish Antiquaries, have been made the subject of a valuable memoir by Dr. P. Neill, a Fellow of the Society, in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, (vol. i. p. 183, and Wern. Mem. vol. iii. p. 207.) Dr. Neill, Professor Fleming, and subsequent writers, including Professor Owen, in referring to the historical notices of the beaver, remark on the absence of any mention of such an animal in the Scottish public records. This, however, is an error. In an Act of David I. fixing the rate of custom-duties, beavers' skins are mentioned among the Scottish exports, along with those of the fox, the weasel, the martin, the wild cat, the ferret, &c.--"Of Peloure.--Of a tymmyr of skynnis of toddis, quhytredis, mertrikis, cattis, _beueris_, sable firettis, or swylk vthyr of ilk tymmyr at þe outpassing, iiij ᵭ. Of þe tymmer of skurel, ij ᵭ.," &c., (Act. Parl. Scot. vol. i. p. 303.) Dr. Neill has pointed out the interesting fact, that the Scottish Highlanders still retain a peculiar Gaelic name for the beaver, _Dobran losleathan_, the broad-tailed otter. By the Welsh it is called _Llosdlydan_, and Pennant refers to waters in the principality still bearing the name of the Beaver Lake. [225] Numbers xxxi. 22. [226] Ezekiel xxvii. 12. [227] Borlase's Cornwall, vol. i. p. 317. Plate XXVIII. [228] Archæologia, vol. xvi. p. 137. Plates IX. and X. [229] Collectanea Curiosa Antiqua Dumnonia, by W. T. P. Shortt, Esq., p. 71. [230] Mémoires de la Société d'Emulation d'Abbeville, 1844-1848, p. 135. [231] W. T. P. Shortt, Esq. of Heavitree, near Exeter. Antiqua Dumnonia, Pref. p. iv. _Vide_ also Sylva Antiqua Iscana, pp. 79, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93-105. Gent.'s Mag., Aug. and Sep. 1837, &c., for notices of the discovery of numerous early Greek and Egyptian, and some Phœnician coins. [232] Numismatic Chronicle, vol. i. p. 3. _Vide_ also the able series of Articles by the Rev. Beale Post, on the coins of Cunobeline, and of the Ancient Britons. Journ. of Archæol. Assoc. vols. i. ii. iii. iv. and v.