POLAR BEAR. 
HIST. QUAD. Genus XX. 
Hit. Quad. N° 175.—Lev. Mus. 
EAR. With a long narrow head and neck: tip of the nofe 
black: teeth of a tremendous magnitude: hair of a great length, 
foft, and white, and in part tinged with yellow: limbs very thick 
and ftrong: ears fhort and rounded. 
Travellers vary about their fize. De Buffon quotes the authority 
of Gerard le Ver* for the length of one of the fkins, which, he fays, 
was twenty-three feet. This feems to be extremely mifreprefented ; 
for Gerard, who:was a companion of the famous Barentz, and Heem/- 
kirk, a voyager of the firft credit, killed feveral on Nova Zembla, the 
largeft of which did not exceed thirteen feet in length f.. They feem 
fmaller on Spitzdergen: one meafured by order of a noble and able: 
navigator f, in his late voyage towards the Pole, was as follows: I 
give all the meafurements to afcertain the proportions. 
Feet. Inches. 
Length from fnout to. tail - ¥ 1 
from fnout to fhoulder-bone  - 
Height at the fhoulder : s 
Circumference. near the fore legs 
of the neck near the ear 
Breadth of the fore-paw - - 
Weight of the carcafe without the head; 
fin, or entrails. = = - 610 ]b. 
This fpecies, like the Rein and Arétic Fox, almoft entirely fur-= 
rounds the neighborhood of the Polar circle. It is found within ir, 
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* De Buffon, Suppl. iii. 200. + See Le Ver, p. 14. ed. 1606. Am/feld, 
} The Honorable Confantine Fobn Phipps, now Lord Mulgrave. 
far: 
$3 
BEAR. 
18. PoLar, 
Prace. 
