THE FORESTS^OF OREGON 



other in being smaller and having shorter nails, 

 in climbing trees, and being so little vicious 

 that they could be pursued with safety. 



Lewis and Clark came to the conclusion 

 that all those with white-tipped hair found by 

 them in the basin of the Columbia belonged 

 to the same species as the grizzlies of the upper 

 Missouri; and that the black and reddish- 

 brown, etc., of the Rocky Mountains belong 

 to a second species equally distinct from the 

 grizzly and the black bear of the Pacific Coast 

 and the East, which never vary in color. 



As much as possible should be made by the 

 ordinary traveler of these descriptions, for he 

 will be likely to see very little of any species 

 for himself; not that bears no longer exist 

 here, but because, being shy, they keep out of 

 the way. In order to see them and learn their 

 habits one must go softly and alone, lingering 

 long in the fringing woods on the banks of the 

 salmon streams, and in the small openings 

 in the midst of thickets where berries are most 

 abundant. 



As for rattlesnakes, the other grand dread 

 of town-dwellers when they leave beaten roads, 

 there are two, or perhaps three, species of them 

 in Oregon. But they are nowhere to be found 

 in great numbers. In western Oregon they are 

 hardly known at all. In all my walks in the 

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