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haphazard by the map-drawer, why should white bears be also 
represented, as they seem to be in the ocean off Isola de Demoni. 
The figures of the black bear, as well as of the rabbit and of the 
aborigines are well drawn, and it seems not unreasonable to 
infer that white bears were actually seen and reported to the 
south and west of Newfoundland. 
That the white bear may have visited the coast of Maine, near 
Portland, is further proved by the probable discovery by Mr. E. 
S. Morse of a white bear’s tooth in the shell heaps of Casco bay. 
Speaking of the bones of the bear found in a shell heap on 
Goose island, Casco bay, Maine, the late Professor Wyman 
remarked in the AMERICAN NATURALIST, I, 575, January, 1868: | 
“The bones of the dear, though much less numerous, were 
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