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danemg; his bear dance, as he calls it, being nothing more than a close 
imitation of his shaggy quadruped instructors. 
Th« brown bear is upwards of four feet long. He inhabits Europe and 
the mperate parts of Asia. 
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THE GRIZZLY BEAR. 

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Tuts animal inhabits the northern part of America, and is, perhaps, the 
most formidable of all bears in magnitude and ferocity. He averages twice 
the bulk of the black bear, to which, however, he bears some resemblance 
n his slightly elevated forehead, and narrow, flattened, elongated muzzle. 
His canine teeth are of great size and power. The feet are enormously 
large; the breadth of the fore foot exceeding nine inches, and the length of 
the hind foot, exclusive of the talons, being eleven inches and three quarters, 
and its breadth seven inches. The talons sometimes measure more than 
six inches. He is, accordingly, admirably adapted for digging up the 
ground, but is unable to climb trees, in which latter respect he differs wholly 
from every other species. The color of his hair varies to almost an indefi- 
nite extent, between all the intermediate shades of a light gray and a black 
brown; the latter tinge, however, being that which predominates. It is 
always in some degree grizzled, by intermixture of grayish hairs, only the 
brown hairs being tipped with gray. The hair itself is, in general, longer, 
finer, and more exuberant than that of the black bear. 
The neighborhood of the Rocky Mountains is one of the principal haunts 
of this animal. There, amidst wooded plains, and tangled copses of bough 
and underwood, he reigns as much the monarch, as the lion is of the sandy 
wastes of Africa. Even the bison cannot withstand his attack. Such is 
his muscular strength, that he will drag the ponderous carcass of the animal 
‘9 a convenient spot, where he digs a pit for its reception. The Indians 

1 Ursus ferox, Lewis & Clarke. 
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