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and other mad, is mod delicate food; and that of 
the cubs dill finer; but the paws of the old bears 
are reckoned the mod exqulfite monel: the fat white, 
and very fweet: the oil excellent for drains, and 
old pains. 
The latter end of autumn, after they have fat¬ 
tened themfelves to the greated degree, the bears 
withdraw to their dens, where they continue for a 
great number of days in total ina&ivity, and abdi- 
nence from food, having no other nourifhment than 
what they get by fucking their feet, where the fat 
lodges in great abundance: their retreats are either 
in cliffs of rocks *, in the deeped recedes of the 
thicked woods *, or in the hollows of antient trees, 
which they afcend and defcend with furprizing agi¬ 
lity : as they lay in no winter provifions, they are 
in a certain fpace of time, forced from their retreats 
by hunger, and come out extremely lean : multi¬ 
tudes are killed annually in America , for the fake of 
their defh, or ddns; which lad makes a confider- 
abk article of commerce. 
139. Polar. White bear. Martins Spitfberg. xxvi. 
100. EgedeGreenl. 59. Ellis <voy. Urfus albus Martenfil. Klein quad . 
41. Crantz Greenl, Y. 73. Ba- 82. 
rentz qjoy. 18. 45. La Hcntan I/Ours blanc. Briffon quad. 188. 
<voy. 1. 235 . Catejby Carolina App. de Buff on, xv. 128. 
B. with long head and neck : fhort round ears : end 
of the nofe black: vad teeth: hair long, foft, 
white, tinged in fome parts with yellow : limbs of 
great fize and drength : grow to a vad fize : the 
ikins of fome are thirteen feet long. 
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