50 HABITATS OF DIFFERENT ANIMALS. 



ture when led along to exhibit his awkward gri- 

 maces for the amusement of a village crowd, would 

 think it impossible that such a clumsy animal 

 could ascend high trees. But such is the fact. 

 His habitation is at least thirty or forty feet from 

 the ground, and as soon as the wreathing smoke 

 around the root of the tall tree announces that 

 the conflagration is begun, the poor mother de- 

 scends the tree first, and is slain before she reaches 

 the ground; the cubs, who anxiously follow her 

 steps, are seized by throwing a rope round their 

 necks, and carried off to be killed for the table, or 

 to be trained as dancers. 



In speaking of such animals as are able to endure 

 the extremity of winter, it is worthy of remark that 

 they travel from one continent to another, either 

 upon pieces of floating ice during the summer 

 months, or when the Arctic seas are frozen over ; 

 while those who inhabit the southern parts of 

 America are widely different from the inhabitants 

 of the ancient continents, under the same degrees 

 of latitude. Hence the Bear and Wolf, the Rein- 

 deer and the Stag, the Beaver and the Fox, are 

 equally known to the inhabitants of Canada, and 

 to those of Russia, while the Agouti and the Llama, 

 the Armadillo, the Tapir, and the Pecary, with 

 various others of different localities and habits, are 

 confined to the new world. 



The Yellow Bear of Carolina, and the Grizzly 

 Bear, are sufficiently identified. The last, an ex- 

 ceeding fierce and cruel creature, nine feet in length, 

 was killed by Lewis and Clarke, during their cele- 

 brated expedition across the continent. The Mis- 



