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the lost cub came running toward liim, but, alas ! to 

 its death. 



In the summer of 1882 the signal station camp of. 

 the Adirondack Survey, in charge of Mr. Verplanck 

 Colvin, was visited by a bear in the absence of the 

 campers and turned topsy-turvy by the mischievous 

 brute ; the tent was torn down, and blankets, books, 

 and instruments were strewn about in great disorder. 

 The footprints of bruin were found later, and Mr. 

 Colvin, catching sight of him, fired at and wounded 

 him, but did not succeed in efEeeting his capture. 

 Dr. Merriam states that the average number of bears 

 annually killed in the Adirondacks up to 1882 was 

 thirty or more.* In the wildernesses of the White 

 Mountains scarcely a season passes without ten or 

 more being killed, and in the fastnesses of the great 

 forests of Maine the shooting of a dozen bears in 

 one season may be considered a mild amount of sport. 

 In the Red Eoek district of New Brunswick in 1879 

 eighteen bears were killed, only two of which were 

 fully grown. This part of the country is sparsely set- 

 tled, and it is said that, through the depredations 

 of bears during the year mentioned, the farmers lost 

 more than seventy head of stock, which included even 

 horned cattle. 



* Vide Transactions ol the Linn<ean Society. Animals of 

 the Adirondacks. 



