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placed crosswise, could with difficulty carry him a short 

 distance. I have shot many bears which weighed about 

 thirty lispund* (near six hundred English pounds) ; but all 

 these were much smaller, so that I cannot calculate the 

 weight of this bear at less than forty lispund (near eight 

 hundred pounds)." 



M. Falk winds up this account of his performances, dated 

 some years back, by saying : " I have have had a great 

 number of, more or less, successful Skalls. In many of 

 them, three or four bears have been killed. But unless 

 some extraordinary incident occurs, it does not appear to me 

 worth while describing how these beasts simply die; and I 

 therefore do not enter into farther particulars. Large and 

 small together, I have killed in Skalls eighty-six bears !" 



* In the above calculation, I assume Victualie weight, which, in Sweden, is 

 used for all general purposes, to be that meant by M. Talk; but I have 

 nevertheless my suspicions, that he refers to Bergs weight, which is about 

 eleven per cent less. 



