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the terms used by the different tribes to signify hoary or light coloured, by the 
general epithet of blanc. Lewis and Clark, in their ably-executed Journey to 
the Shores of the Pacific, had numerous opportunities of observing its manners, 
and by their ample descriptions, first enabled naturalists to class it as a distinct 
species. It is true that Forster, long before, in his translation of Bossu’s Travels, 
had intimated that the “‘ White Bear of Louisiana’’ must be distinct from the 
Polar Bear, which it resembled in size, but the remark was suffered to pass 
unheeded. De Witt Clinton, in his discourse at the Institution of the New York 
Literary and Philosophical Scciety, is the first naturalist who, judging from Lewis 
and Clark’s account, clearly asserted that this animal was specifically different 
from either the Polar or common American Bears. Since that time the various 
synonymes prefixed to this article, in the order of their publication, have been 
assigned to it. The English name of Grisly has been adopted in this work as 
being less liable to objection than one founded on colour alone ; and the Latin 
translation of it, feroxr, which, as far as I have been able to ascertain, first occurs 
in Desmarest, and seems preferable to cinereus, is used for the specific appellation. 
Mr. Say, in the account of Major Long’s Expedition, gives a description of the 
Grisly Bear, drawn up from male and female specimens, preserved in the Phila- 
delphia Museum, and which, having been brought up in a state of confinement, 
were killed before they arrived at maturity. Figures of these specimens have 
been published in the American edition of Long’s Expedition, and in Godman’s 
Natural History. A young cub, caught on the Rocky Mountains, being brought 
to England by the Hudson’s Bay Company about eight years ago, has been kept 
in the Tower ever since, and there is a spirited engraving of it by Landseer, in 
Griffith’s Animal Kingdom. The etching, forming plate first of this work, is by 
the same able artist, the head being from that of an adult male, brought home by 
Mr. Drummond, and the form of the body and attitudes from the individual in the 
Tower, Iwas present at the death of a young Grisly Bear, killed at Carlton- 
house on the Saskatchewan. It was a male, in its second year, which being pur- 
sued by mounted hunters, was overtaken after an hour’s chase, through snow one 
foot deep. The hunters approached boldly, trusting in the fleetness of their 
horses ; although, from the size of its foot-prints, they were fully aware that it was 
a Grisly Bear, even before they saw it*. The skin and scull of this individual are 
now preserved in the Museum of the Edinburgh University, and a figure of it is 
given in the sixth number of the very excellent Illustrations of Zoology by Wilson. 
* MAcxkENZIE mentions the foot-marks of a Grisly Bear as being nine inches long and proportionably wide. The 
foot-marks of the young one mentioned in the text were of equal dimensions. 
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