LAA We. ae, 
of the Bear; which is prepared by boiling the fat and flefh together. 
This they call a Deer of oil, and fell to the French for a gun, or fome- 
thing of equal value*. 
Bears greafe is in great repute in Europe for its fuppofed quality 
of making the hair to grow on the human head. A ereat chymift in 
the Haymarket in London ufed to fatten annually two or three Bears 
for the fake of their fat. 
The {kin is in ufe for all purpofes which the coarfer forts of furs 
are applied to: it ferves in America, in diftant journies, for coverlets ; 
and the finer parts have been in fome places ufed in the hat manu- 
facture fF. 
The Indians of Canada daub their hands and face with the greafe, 
to preferve them from the bite of mufketoes: they alfo fmear their 
bodies with the oil after exceffive exercife =. They think, like the 
Romans of old, that oil fupples their joints, and preferves them in 
full activity. 
Black Bear, Hi/?. Quad. N° 174.— Suellie, v. 19. 
EAR. With long fhaggy hair, ufually dufky or black, with 
brown points ; liable to vary, perhaps according to their age, or 
fome accident, which does not create a fpecific difference. 
A variety of a pale brown color, whofe fkins I have feen imported 
from Hud/cn’s Bay. ‘The fame kind, I believe, is alfo found in Europe. 
The cubs are of a jetty black, and their necks often encircled with 
white. 
Bears {potted with white. 
Land Bears, entirely white. Such fometimes fally from the lofty 
mountains which border on Sidiria, and appear in a wandering 
manner in the lower parts of the country ||. Marco Polo relates, that 
they were frequent in his time in the north of Tartary, and of a very 
great fize. 
* Du Prate, ii. 62. + Law/fon, 117, t Kalm, iii. 13. ||. Door Pallas. 
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20. Brown, 
