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BEAR HUNTING. 



IvOM the farthest North to the extreme 

 South of the United States, tlie common 

 Itlack Bear of America — Ursus Ameri- 

 (■(Dius — has his regular ranges and his 

 winter dens, and everywhere lie is ai; 

 object of keen and eager pursuit, not 

 only on account <jf his mischievous pro- 

 pensities and the damage he does to the 

 5 farmer, hut for the value of his skin,, 

 and the excellence of his flesh, which rescmlding pork, witli i 

 peculiarly wild and perfumed flavor, is esteemed a great deli- 

 cacy by the epicures of large cities. 



To the Eastward, in Maine, and the northerji parts of the 

 other New England States, he is still abundant; in New York, 

 a kw are yet to be found among the wilder hills of Greene and 

 Ulster counties — in Rockland and Orange they are probably 

 extinct — and thence to the Westward through all the southern 

 tier of counties along the Pennsylvania line, and in the northern 

 part of that fine sporting state to the great Apalachlan chain, 

 on which and everywhere to the north of it they are extremely 

 plentiful, as well as throughout all the wooded portions of the 

 Southern, South-western, and the Western States, even to the 

 Pacific Ocean. There is a variety of this animal — not a dis- 

 tinct species — known in Carolina as the Yellow Bear, and 

 another, peculiar to the far North, under the name of the Cinna- 

 mon Bear, a nomenclature obviously derived from the color of 

 their pelage. 



