Note 288a — PART II. ON THE PROBABLE PERIOD OF THE EXTINCTION OF WOLVES IN ENGLAND. [287a]
Reading edition
Pennant’s British Quadrupeds, vol. i. p. 86. Holinshed, in his Chronicles, written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, states that the beaver was to be met with in Scotland, at the time when he wrote. “There are likewise martins, bevers, foxes, and wezels.”—See his Description of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 11.