A GUL-DE-SAC. 2U1 



lost its dam when very young, and had 

 never Ijefore seen a human being. 



Upon one occasion, I witnessed a curious 

 scene with a bear and her cub. I was out 

 with a party of two or three men, and the 

 bear w^as seen by one of them, feeding at the 

 foot of some perfectly inaccessible rocks ; Ave 

 apiDroached her as rapidly as possible. As 

 soon as she saw us, she took the alarm and ran 

 along followed by the cub, until they came to 

 a narrow gully running from the foot of the 

 rocks, and extending up the hill. In fact, it 

 was a kind of chasm in the rocks forming a cul- 

 de-sac. The pair were brought to a stand-still, 

 about three hundred yards from the entrance, 

 by the chasm terminating in a huge mass of 

 rock ; their further progress was stopped, 

 and the precipices on either side were just 

 as impracticable : indeed, I think that no 

 animal whatever, could, by any possibility, 

 have got out, except through the road below, 

 by which it had got in. In the meantime, 

 we had reached the foot of the rocks, and 

 were standing at the opening of the chasm. 



