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GLUTTON. 
two countries. They are said to clread the whale* 
who scents and pursues them from a natural an- 
tipathy, because they eat her young. 
Glutton. 
This is a bear with a round head, a thick blunt 
nose, and short ears, rounded except at the tip. Its 
limbs are large, and its back is straight, marked 
along its whole length with a tawny line ; its tail 
is short, and very full of hair ; its hair in all 
other parts is finely damasked, or watered like a 
silk, and very glossy ,* but it sometimes varies to 
a brown colour. One brought from Siberia, and 
kept alive at Dresden, measured forty-four inches, 
and nineteen in height. 
It inhabits Lapland, the northern and eastern 
parts of Siberia, and Kamtschatka. Those of 
Kamtschatka differ and vary to white and yellow- 
ish. The natives prefer the skins of these to such 
as are black ; they say the heavenly beings wear 
no other garments. The women wear the paws 
of the white sort in their hair, and esteem the skin 
of one the most valuable present their husbands or 
lovers can make them. ' 
It is chiefly in North America that this voracious 
creature is seen lurking among the thick branches 
of trees, m order to surprise the deer, with which 
the extensive forests Of that part of the world 
abound. Endued with a degree of patience equal 
to its rapacity, the glutton singles out such trees as 
it observes marked by the teeth or the antlers of 
the deer ; and is known to remain there watching 
for several days together. If it has fixed upon a 
wrong tree, and finds that the deer have cither left 
that part of the country, or cautiously shun the 
place, it reluctantly descends, pursues the beaver to 
its retreat, or even ventures into the water, in pur- 
