a©efcnpti'0ttof Wising Cceatnteisf^ sj 
and licver fee one another again, but hide them- 
felves in feme Cave or Den, and therefore it is 
very rare to find a £ear -who is big with young ; 
there is a time in the Winter quarter when they 
fleep for feveral da yes together, and thatfo found- 
ly, that it is a difiicuk tiling to awake them ; and 
this is the time in which they grow fat ; when they 
are awakene-d, they fuck their fore-feet (which 
are fweetcr than the r hind-feet, becaufe they are 
more in ufe ) and 60 exceedingly like the juycc 
which they^fuck from thence. 
4. The female is faid to be very leacherous, and 
doth bring forth very deformed young ones, which 
are fo deformed, that as foon as they are brought 
forth, it feems to be but a meer lump of flefh ^ 
without eyes or hair , ^and little bigger than a 
'Moptfe^ but HOC fo big as a which fhe after- 
wards brings into lhape and form by licking of it; 
therefore Virgil faid, that he compofed his Ver- 
fes as Bears do form their young ones , Wss; by 
licking, i. e. with a great deal of difficulty. Sca~ 
proves the contrary, Exersltat. 6. SeU. ly, 
where he alleadges that there have been feveral 
Bears found in the Alps big wkhjomg^ which were 
<cut oj)en^ and the young ones were foum to be ferfefllj 
jhafedia all its parts i and others have obferved 
that the young ones of Bears as foon as they are 
brought forth, arie enclofed in a certain skin, which 
cannot be got off but % licking, and it is a long 
while ere they can get it off fo too. 
S- The Female hath a great love and affedUon to 
her young on^, and fits over themas a Hsa doth 
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