1 8 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



Of tlie ancient Biitisli metliods of hunting the 

 Bear, we are but imperfectly informed. We learn, 

 however, from rude descriptions and ruder figurings, 

 that he was watched to his couch, or was traced to 

 his winter retirement, when arrows, pikes, clubs, 

 javelins, and long knives, were used against him ; he 

 was also occasionally betrayed into a pitfall. In 







LEAH UUST. JRCtsI AN OLD rillXT IN TOSSESSION 01' THE AUTIIOE. 



later times the Bear was trailed with boar-hounds, 

 and despatclied by the spear or knife of the hunter, 



made inMstravelstlirougli Wales " ("Phil. Trans.," vol. xxvii. p. 462), 

 the writei' observes : — 



"Sir William Williams hath several Welsh MSS. (tho' I think 

 no dictionary) that would be of use to me ; but his son tells me he's 

 resolv'd never to lend any. They are chiefly modern copies out of 

 Ilengwrt Study in Meir i oniidhshlve, which I am promis'd free access 

 to ; and have this time taken a Catalogue of all tho ancient MSS. it 

 (contains. There are the worlcs of Talirfijn, Aiiciiryn r/wan-dydh, 

 Mijrdh'ijii lib Morvrijn and Kygodio I'Jlaeth, who lived in the fifth and 



