100 CLIMATES DISREGARDED. 
a southern aspect, and without water to re- 
sort to at its pleasure; and even this den 
is to make part of a house, which will be 
built over it against the winter, and in 
which the Polar Bear, and some eight or ten 
large animals beside, are to breathe one com- 
mon and heated atmosphere ; the Polar Bear 
being made the companion of the Lion, 
Tiger, Leopard, and other natives of the 
Torrid Zone! It is true that Bears, and 
the Polar Bear among the rest, bury them- 
selves under the snow, and in similar shel- 
tered situations during the winter; and, so 
far, it is possible, that the Society’s Polar 
Bear may pass that season tolerably. It does 
not follow, however, that if this Bear is to 
be kept awake during the winter, by means 
of providing it with an artificial summer, it 
will thrive amid the same or greater heat 
than might be serviceable to it if asleep or ' 
hybernating ; and how much better off, as 
well as how much more advantageously seen, 
the Polar Bear would really be, if treated 
something like the Otter or the Beaver, 
you will judge from the accounts given to 
us by naturalists. The Polar Bear (they 
