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POLAR BLAR. 
McKbnsie inlbrms us that these animals are unknown in the White Sea, 
or on the coast of Siberia to the eastward of Tchutskoinoss. They have 
been seen on floating icebergs from fifty to a hundred miles at sea. Capt. 
Ross states that this species was found in greater numbers in the neigh- 
bourhood of Port Bowen and Batty Bay in Prince Regent’s Inlet, than in 
any other part of the Polar Regions that were visited by the several ex- 
peditions of discovery. This he supposed was owing to the food they 
were enabled to procure in that vicinity, Lancaster Sound being but sel- 
dom covered by permanently fixed ice, and therefore affording them means 
of subsistence during the severity of an arctic winter, and also from its 
being remote from the haunts of the Esquimaux. 
