THE following narrative of an encounter with a bear is given 

 by Mr. William Galloway, a surveyor in the west : On a 

 cloudy day, in January, 1804, I surveyed a tract of one 

 thousand acres of land on the Little Miami, which included 

 the old Chilicothe town, assisted by William and John Steven- 

 son, or Stinson, as they were commonly called, as chainmen, 

 both of whom were old hunters. 



In running the back line of the survey, which was mostly 

 through a large thicket, I was about one hundred yards in 

 advance of the chainman and marker. Having halted to set 

 the compass, my attention was attracted by a pile of fresh 

 earth, at the root of a large white oak, about twenty yards 

 distant, which had fallen several years before ; the trunk of 

 which gradually rose from the root till about twenty-five feet 

 back, it was elevated several feet from the ground. A small 



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