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and another is spoken of at trie age of forty-seven, in the menagerie at Paris. They are 

 excellenl swimmers, notwithstanding their uncouth appearance. 



•in the accounts which have been furnished, it would appear that the hears of Xorway arc 

 not much inferior in size and ferocity to the grizzly bear of our country. The she-hear of that 

 region is represented ■ cially formidable when she 1ms occasion to defend her cubs. In \ 



- of dangi ;•. Bhe drives them into the trees for safety; this she sometimes effects with so much 

 violence thai their cries may be heard a considerable way off; she then retreats to some dis- 

 tance. This is a -ure token thai she means to defend her cubs, and it is then very dangerous to , 

 approach them unless the hunter is fir-t free,] from the mother, who is sure to attack him with 



