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in thofe early times, as far as the prefent refi- 
dence of thefe Arftic animals, I will not venture to 
affirm, nor to deny ; but fmce my friend, the Hon. 
Baines Barrington*, has clearly proved the intenfe 
cold that in former ages raged in countries now more 
than temperate, it is moll probable that in thofe 
times they were Hocked with animals natural to a 
rigorous climate ^ which, fince the alteration, have 
neceffarily become extind in thofe parts: the Polar 
Bear might have been one, but that it was the fpe- 
cies meant by Callixenus is clear to me, by the epi¬ 
thet fAsy»Xn, or Great , which is very applicable to 
it •, for the white Tartarian land bear (which Ptolomy 
might very eafily procure) differs not in fize from 
the black or brown kind, but the bulk of the other 
is quite charaderiftic. 
Quickhatch, Catejby Carolina App. corpore ferrugineo, roftro fufco, 140. W s ’e- 
xxx. fronte plagaque iaterali corporis. 1 rene. 
Carcajou, or Quickhatch, Dobbs Lin.JyJl . 71. 
Jtudjon s Bay , 40. Urfus Freti Hudfmis. U. caftanei 
Quickhatch, or Wolverene, Ellis coloris, cauda unicolore, roitro 
Hudfon Bay , 42. Clerk’s <voy.ll, pedibufque fillers, Brijfon quad. 
3. Ed'oj. 103. 18S. 
Urfus lufeus. U. cauda elongata, 
B. with a black ffiarp pointed vifage : ffiort rounded 
ears, almoft hid in the hair : hairs on the head, back, 
and belly, reddifh, with black tips, fb that thofe 
parts appear, on firft fight, quite black : fides of a 
yellowiffi brown, which paffes in form of a band 
* Phil Tranf. <vol LVIII. p. 58, 
O 2 quite 
