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iii. 232. Found in the holes deserted by the woodpecker, 

 iv. 200. 



Bath, persons coming out of a warm bath several ounces 

 heavier than they went in ; warm bath of sea water a kind 

 of relief to mariners upon a failure of fresh water at sea, 

 i. 206. 



Bay, a stag is said to bay, when he turns his head against the 

 hounds, ii. 321. 



Beagle. See Hound, iii. 13. 



Beak, how that of animals is produced, i. 4-28. 



Beam, by hunters meant that part which bears the antlers, 

 ii. 317. 



Beams, those of the sun shining upon the fire put it out, and 

 why ; darting directly upon us, without the medium of the 

 air, would burn us up at once, or blind us with effulgence, 

 i. 285. 



Beards, Americans take great pains to pluck theirs up by the 

 roots, the under part, and all but the whiskers, therefore 

 supposed to have no hair growing on that part ; Linnaeus 

 himself has fallen into this mistake ; different customs of 

 men in the manner of wearing their beards, i. 424-. 



Bears, in cold frozen regions of the North not smaller than 

 in milder countries, i. 351. The North American Indians 

 anoint their skins with fat of bears, ii. 93. The bears now 

 and then make depredations upon the rein-deer, 363. In 

 Greenland do not change colour, iii. 74-. The black, of 

 America, does not reject animal food, as believed ; places 

 where they are found ; retreat of the brown bear ; a vulgar 

 error that, during winter, the brown bear lives by sucking 

 its paws ; it seems rather to subsist then upon the exube- 

 rance of its former flesh ; the male and female do not in- 

 habit the same den, and seldom are seen together but upon 

 the accesses of genial desire; care of the female for her 

 young 5 the bear when tamed seems gentle and placid, yet 

 still to be distrusted and managed with caution, being often 

 treacherous and resentful without a cause ; is capable of a 

 degree of instruction ; when come to maturity can never 

 be tamed ; methods of taking them ; their paws and hams a 

 great delicacy ; the white, placed in the coldest climates, 

 grows larger than in the temperate zones, and remains mas- 

 ter of the icy mountains in Spitzbergen and Greenland ; 

 unable to retreat, when attacked with fire-arms, they make 

 a fierce and long resistance ; they live upon fish and seals ; 

 their flesh is too strong for food ; are often seen on ice- 

 floats, several leagues at sea, though bad swimmers; the 

 white sometimes jumps into a Greenlander's boat, and if it 

 does not overset it, sits down calmly, and, like a passenger, 

 suffers itself to be rowed along ; hunger makes it swim 

 after fish ; often a battle ensues between a bear and a 



