BEAR 
BuFFON observes, that " there is no ani- 
mal so generally known as the Bear, con- 
cerning which the writers of natural history- 
have differed so much. Their uncertainties, 
and even contradictions, with regard to the 
nature and manners of this animal, seem to 
Ihave proceeded from their not distinguishing 
properly the different species ; and, of course, 
'they sometimes ascribe to one the properties 
of another. In the first place, the Land Bear 
must be distinguished from the Sea Bear ; the 
latter being commonly called the White Bear, 
or Bear of the Frozen Sea, These two ani- 
mals are very different, both in the form of 
their bodies and in their natural dispositions. 
The Land Bears," continues Burl on, <c must 
again be distinguished, into the Brown and 
the Black ; because, having neither the same 
inclinations, nor the same natural appetites, 
i they cannot be regarded as varieties only of 
one and the same species. Besides, some 
Land Bears are White ; and, though resem- 
bling in colour the Sea Bear, they differ from 
it, in every other particular, as much as the 
i other Bears. These White Land Bears are 
found 
