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THE BEAR. 
laying bare the skull and bringing the skin 
of the forehead down over the eyes. Assist¬ 
ance coming up, the bear made off without 
doing him any further inj ury; but, the skin 
not being replaced, the poor man has lost 
his sight, though he thinks his eyes are un¬ 
injured.’ Mr. Drummond, in his excursions 
upon the Rocky Mountains, had frequent 
opportunities of observing the manners of 
the grisly bears; and it often happened 
that upon turning the point of a rock or 
sharp angle of a valley he came suddenly 
upon one or more of them. On these oc¬ 
casions they reared up on their hind-legs 
and made a noise like a person breathing 
hard,—but much louder. He kept his 
ground, without attempting to molest them; 
and they, on their part, after attentively re¬ 
garding him for some time, generally turned 
and galloped off,—though, from their known 
disposition, there is but little doubt that he 
would have been torn in pieces had he lost 
his presence of mind and attempted to fly. 
When he discovered them at a distance, he 
generally frightened them away by beating 
on a large tin box in which he carried his 
specimens of plants. He never saw more 
