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Its hoofs are extremely black, obtufe, and fpread. A kind of mane 

 runs all down its fpine ; inclining backwards to half way of the back, 

 then inclining forwards, and near the tail inclining backwards again. 

 This mane is long on the neck, fhort toward the tail. Its eyes have, 

 eye-lafhes of ftifFhair; fome ftiff" hairs alfo round the mouth. A bony 

 kind of tubercle makes a fort of third horn on the forehead. Ears large. 

 Its teeth, refembling thofc of deer, are made entirely for vegetable paf- 

 ture. It is beautifully fpeckled with brown or black fpots, on a light 

 brownirti or dirty white ground: the females lighter than the males. 

 Timorous and harmlefs; lives entirely on the leaves of trees; always 

 carries its head very high. Kneels down to drink. Its motion is a kind 

 of pace, the two front or two hind legs moving together ; runs awk- 

 wardly, and badly. Often lies down on its belly. Was known to the 

 ancients, but rarely fee n in Europe. Pompey exhibited, at onetime, 

 no lefs than ten. Inhabits the internal regions of Africa. 



The dimenfions of a young one, brought from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, were as follows : Length of the head, one foot eight inches ; the 

 foreleg, from the ground to the top of the Oioulder, ten feet; from 

 thence, to the top of the head, feven, making together feventeen fectj 

 height of the hind leg, eight feet five inches : from the top of the fhoul- 

 der, to the infertion of the tail, feven feet. Sometimes are twenty-five 

 feet from nofe to tail. 



T H E B E A R. 



OF the bear, are three different kinds j the brown bear of the Alps, 

 the black bear of North America, which is fmaller, and the great 

 Greenland or white bear. Of the fame habitudes, carnivorous, 

 treacherous and cruel. 



The brown bear is properly an inhabitant of the temperate climates; 

 the black finds fubfiftence in the northern regions of Europe and America : 

 the great white bear inhabits the moft icy climates. The brown bear, 

 favage and foliiary, takes refuge in the moft dangerous precipices of un- 

 inhabited mountains; in the gloom of the foreft, in fome cavern hollowed 

 by time, or in the hollow of fome old enormous tree. There, alone, it 

 paffes fome months in winter without provifions, and without ftirring 



abroad; 



