This Beaver is a creature living both on land and water, footed before like a dog and behind like a goose, with an ash-coloured skin somewhat blackish, having a long taile, broad and gristly, which in his floting he useth in lieu of a sterne. concerning the subtile wilinesse of which creatures, the said Giraldus hath observed many things, but at this daie none of them are here to be seene.