ming. It is sometimes carnivorous; and will 
destroy cattle, as well as eat carrion: but 
it's general food is said to be roots, fruit?, 
berries, and other vegetables. It will beat 
peas out of the shells, on some hard place, eat 
them, and carry off the straw; ravage corn- 
fields ; rob the farmer's granary ; dig up po- 
tatoes ; and is a great plunderer of the Bees, 
being particularly fond of honey* 
The flesh of a Bear, in autumn, when these 
animals are excessively fat, by feeding on 
acorns and other mast, is most delicate food, 
and that of the cubs is still finer ; but the paws 
of the old Bears are reckoned the most exqui- 
site morsel. The fat is white, and very sweet. 
The oil is excellent for strains and old pains ; 
and the grease is valued as a cosmetic to make 
the hair grow. The fur is a well-known 
article of commerce. 
The Bear generally brings forth two cubs 
at a time ; but sometimes three, and at others 
only one : and Pennant says, that the cubs 
even of the Brown Bear are of a jetty black- 
ness, and often have round their necks a circle 
of white. M. De Musly, however, informed 
BurTon, that the colour of the young, at their 
birth, 
