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attempt a hunt : and so the poor farmers must suffer the loss of their 

 cows and sheep, and only trust to scare away their blood-thirsty ene- 

 mies by the large fires which they find it necessary in many places to 

 burn at night round the sheep-folds and herds in the mountains. 



The great strength of the bear is what renders him so formidable. 

 He has been known to descend into a cow-shed by a large hole in the 

 roof, and to carry off a struggling bellowing cow in his arms through 

 the same hole. He has been known to scalp a man, and even to 

 crush in his skull, by a pat from his paw. And only two years since, 

 Mr. Lloyd (the great hunter of the North) was almost killed by a stroke 

 of a wounded bear's paw. Mr. Lloyd had wounded the bear, which 

 immediately turned upon him, and dodged him round and round a 

 tree, behind which he ran for refuge : and though his companion lost 

 no time in coming to his rescue, and by a well-aimed shot laid the 

 bear dead at his feet, it was not until he had with his fore-paw struck 

 at Mr. Lloyd, and torn all the skin off his face. This is another nar- 

 row escape that great hunter has had from the bears of Scandinavia. 



Alfred Charles Smith. 



Old Park, Devizes, July 3, 1851. 



(To be continued). 



Proposal for a Great City Conservatory, or Geographical, Peren- 

 nial, Glazed Garden, on the site of Smithfield Market. By 

 Edward Newman. 



Note. — The following Paper was written for the ' Phytologist, 1 but it is so strictly 

 in accordance with the object of the ' Zoologist,' the diffusion of a love of Na- 

 tural History, and the extension of the means for indulging that love, that I 

 trust it will not be otherwise than acceptable to a great majority of my readers. 



—E.N. 



Smithfield Market, heretofore the monster nuisance, I might per- 

 haps even say the monster curse, of this great metropolis, is to be 

 removed : the House of Commons has decided on its fall. While the 

 question of its existence was under discussion, I would not weaken 

 the hands of those who had so long and so worthily laboured for its 

 removal, by introducing any minor plea — any less powerful argument 

 than that on which they took their stand. The nuisance was unri- 

 valled in the history of nations; it was intolerable, and therefore must 

 be removed. No ulterior consideration could add to the strength of 

 this position ; in fact, every scheme for the occupation of the site 

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