WHITE BEAR. 
The White Bear is frequently called in 
England the Greenland Bear ; and sometimes, 
by naturalists, the Polar Bean 
The length of this animal is said to be often 
thirteen feet; and it seems to be almost the 
only creature which, by being an mhabitant 
of the ar6i:ic- regions, grows larger than those 
of the same tribes in more temperate climeSi 
The rest of animated nature, in general, as 
they approach the poles, seem to suffer a di- 
minution of size through the regions of the 
surrounding atmosphere ; but the White Bear, 
unmolested in these desolate climes, and meet- 
ing with no opponent more powerful than it- 
self, grows to an enormous magnitude : and> 
as the lion is the tyrant of the African forests, 
so the White Bear sways his rude sceptre 
over the icy mountains of Greenland and 
Spitzbergen. 
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