BEAR. 
from Lybia, to be exhibited at their public 
spectacles. The Bear is not only a savage, 
but a solitary animal. Fie flies from all so- 
ciety, avoiding every place to which man 
can have access ; and is only easy where 
Nature appears in her rudest and most an- 
cient form. An old cavern among inac- 
I cessible rocks ; or a grotto, formed by Time, 
in the trunk of a decayed tree, in the midst of 
la thick forest ;. serves him for a habitation. 
( Thither he retires alone, passes part of the 
I winter without provisions, and goes not out 
I for several weeks. However, he is neither 
J torpid, nor deprived of feeling,, like the Dor- 
Imouse and Marmot;, but, as he is excessively 
1 fat about the end of 'autumn, which is the 
I time he retires, this abundance of grease 
| enables him to endure abstinence;, and he de- 
[ parts not from his den till he is almost fa- 
I mished. It is alledged, that the Males leave 
[ not their retreats for forty days ; but th-at the 
I Females continue four months, because it is 
there that they bring forth their young. It 
; is difficult to- believe, that they should not only 
f subsist, but nourish their young,, without 
I taking food for so long a< period. I allow 
that* 
