202 WHITE BEAR. 
be the Bear of the anecdote quoted by Dr. 
Richardson, and which is not to be con- 
founded with the Grisly Bear,* which preys 
upon the Bison, Bonassus, or Wild Ox, 
in the prairies, or plains of North America, 
which has been known to seize and carry 
away aman; and of which the weight often 
exceeds eight hundred pounds, and which 
sometimes measures more than nine feet from 
the nose to the tail. In reality, the Grisly 
Bear is inferior in size only to the White 
Bear; and, with greatly superior strength, 
is almost as carnivorous as the Wolf.” 
It was now the month of September, and 
the White Bear, in its den in the Garden, 
seemed to employ its waking hours in a mode 
of action which the party were half disposed 
to think might have reference to the instinct 
of the species, to hybernate, or burrow into 
the snow for winter, on the early departure 
of the sun in the northern parts of our he- 
misphere. Unlike all the other animals con- 
fined, its motion was not from right to left, 
and left to right, trying, again and again, to 
discover a passage between the bars in the 
* Ursus Ferox, 
