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them without the purfuit of dogs > to the knowledge 

 whereof I (hall refer the reader to Blondus, Oppiams^ 

 Gefner, lurhervile^ and many others both antient and 

 modern writers, who have largely treated on this fub- 

 jedt. 



Of the Nature and Properties of a Bear, 

 and after what manner Hunted. 



THere are two forts oiBears^ a greater and lefleri 

 the laft is more apt to climb trees than the o- 

 ther. 



Bears are bred in many countries ', in the Helvetian 

 Alpine region they are fo thong and courageous, that 

 they can tear in pieces both oxen and horfes s for which 

 caufe the inhabitants arc Ikdioufly laborious in the ta- 

 king them. 



A Bear is of a mod: venereous and luftful difpofition y 

 for night and day the females with moft ardent in- 

 flam'd deGres do "provoke the males to copulation \ and 

 for this caufe at that time they are molt Hcrce and 

 angry. The time of their copulation is in the begin- 

 ning of winter, and the manner of it is like to a man's v 

 the male moving himfclf upon the belly of the female, 

 which lieth flat on her back, and they embrace each o- 

 ther with their fore-feet : they remain a, very long time 

 in that adl s in fo mucii (asfome have obfervcd, how 

 true I cannot fay) that if they were very fat at their hrll 

 entrance, they dif-joyn not themfelves again till they be 

 lean. 



There is a ftrange report in hiftory, ( if it be true ) 

 That in the mountains oi Savoy a Bear carried a young 

 mild into his den by violence, wherein a venerea^ 

 K 4 maiv- 



