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21. WOoLvERENES 
BROWN BEAR. 
antient Fins had a fong, which, if not highly embellifhed by the 
tranflator, is far from inelegant. 
Beaft ! of all foreft beafts fubdued and flain, 
Health to our huts and prey a hundred-fold 
Reftore ; and o’er us keep a conftant guard ! 
I thank the Gods who gave fo noble prey ! 
When the great day-ftar hides beyond the a/fs, 
I hie me home; and joy, all clad in flowers, 
For three long nights fhall reign throughout my hut. AS 
With tranfport fhall I climb the mountain’s fide. 
Joy op’d this day, joy fhall attend its clofe, 
‘Fhee I revere, from thee expect my prey : 
Nor e’er forgot my carol to the Bzar *.. 
Hiff. Quad. N° 176,177. Syn. Quad. 
Gulo, Pallas Spicil. Zool. Fafc. xiv. 25. tab. ii,—Lav. Muse. 
EAR. With fhort rounded ears, almoft concealed by the fur: 
face fharp, black, and pointed: back broad, and, while the 
animal is in motion, much elevated, or arched; and the head carried 
low: the legs fhort and ftrong: claws long and fharp, white at their 
ends. 
The length from nofe to tail twenty-eight inches; of the trunk of 
the tail feven inches. It is covered with thick long hairs, reddifh at 
the bottom, black at the end; fome reach fix inches beyond the 
tip. 
The hairs on the head, back, and belly, are of the fame colors, 
but much finer and fofter. Before they are examined, the animal ap- 
pears wholly black. The throat whitith, marked with black. Along 
the fides, from the fhoulders to the tail, is a broad band of a ferrugi- 
nous color: in feveral of the fkins, brought from Hud/on’s Bay, I ob- 
* Nichols’s Ruffian Nations, i. 50> 
ferved 
