98 BEAR-GARDEN AT DRESDEN. 
we feel kindly. All feelings gather strength 
by exercise; and, to present a people with 
objects of love, is to cultivate their feelings 
of kindness, goodness, and virtue. 
“ What I propose, too, has nothing in it 
which is either impracticable or new ; and, 
indeed, its present omission might seem to 
impeach the knowledge, for we cannot doubt 
the humanity, of the members of the Society. 
To be enabled to bathe, is as needful to the 
Bear as to the Crane. 
“In the Old and New Bear Gardens, at 
Bankside, ponds were prominent and indis- 
pensable appurtenances. In Baun’s Plan, 
there appear three ponds between the two, 
besides a pond near each theatre; but a 
complete kennel, or establishment, for Bears, 
is thus described by the continental traveller, 
Brown, whose book, of the date of 1685, con- 
tains an engraving of the ‘ Klector of Saxony 
his Bear Garden at Dresden,’ in which is a large 
pond, with several Bears amusing themselves 
init. In the book itself, he says, ‘ In the 
hunting-house, in the Old Town, are fifteen 
Bears, very well provided for and looked 
into. They have fountains and ponds to 
