White Sulphur papers; or, Life at the springs of Western Virginia

BEAVER-DAM FALLS. 127
time reflected their branches, as part of their own
province, defending it from the sun. The beavers
formerly held possession of all this neighbourhood,
and many of their little residences in
the shape of
bee-hives are still to be seen here. The dam at the
Falls was fashioned by their own hands, and here
they lived, until poetry and nature, giving way to
civilization, the beavers left the country, or were
anniliilated.
So romantic a place can hardly have failed to
have given rise to tales of love and romance. Connected
with its celebrity, is an incident of life of
recent occurrence, which is here written in verse.