HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 261 



The Brown BEAR. 



THERE are two principal varieties of the Bear, — ■ 

 the brown and the black. The former is found in 

 almoft every climate; the black Bear chiefly in the forefts 

 of the northern regions of Europe and America. 



The brown Bear is fometimes carnivorous; but its ge- 

 neral food is roots, fruits, and vegetables. 



It is a favage and folitary animal, lives in defert and 

 unfrequented places, and chufes its den in the molt 

 gloomy and retired parts of the foreft, or in the moil 

 dangerous and inacceffible precipices of unfrequented 

 mountains. — It retires alone to its den about the end of 

 autumn, (at which time it is exceedingly fat) and lives 

 for feveral weeks in a (late of total inactivity and abfti- 

 nence from food. — During this time, the female brings 

 forth her young, and fuckles them. She chufes her re- 

 treat for that purpofe in the molt retired places, apart 

 from the male, left he mould devour them. She makes 

 a warm bed for her young, and attends them with unre* 



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