POM ACR “saat Ary 
The fkins of this fpecies, in old times, were offered by the hunters 
to the high altars of cathedrals, or other churches, that the prieft 
might ftand on them, and not catch cold when he was celebrating 
high mafs in extreme cold weather. Many fuch were annually of- 
fered at the cathedral at Drontheim in Norway ; and alfo the fkins of 
wolves, which were fold to purchafe wax lights to burn in honor of 
the faints *. 
Tift, Quad. N° 174.—Smellie, v. 19. 
EAR. With a long pointed nofe, and narrow forehead: the 
cheeks and throat of a yellowifh brown color: hair over the 
whole body and limbs of a gloffy black, fmoother and fhorter than 
that of the European kind. 
They are ufually fmaller than thofe of the old world; yet Mr. 
Bartram gives an inftance of an old he-bear killed in Florida which 
was feven feet long, and, as he gueffed, weighed four hundred 
pounds f. 
Thefe animals are found in all parts of North America, from Hud- 
fon’s Bay to the fouthern extremity ; but in Zowifiana and the fouthern 
parts they appear only in the winter, migrating from the north in 
fearch of food. They fpread acrofs the northern part of the Ameri- 
can continent to the Kamt/chatkan fea. They are found again in the 
oppofite country ¢, and in the Kwri//ki ilands, which intervene be- 
tween Kamifchatka and Fapan ||, Fefo Mafima, which lies, north of 
Fapan§, and probably Fapan itfelf; for Kempfer fays, that a few {mall 
bears are found in the northern provinces . 
It is very certain that this fpecies of bear feeds on vegetables. 
Du Pratz, who is a faithful as well as intelligent writer, relates, that 
* Olaus Magnus, lib. xviii. c. 20. + Journal of his travels into Ea/f Flo- 
vida, 26. 4 Hift. Kamt/ch, iii. 385. lf The fame, 287. — § Voy. ax Nord. iv. 5. 
M| Hift, Fapan, i. 126. 
$7 
19. Buack. 
Foop. 
