. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . The Black Bear in the CO < H DO W 3 ° W H <<2 THE KING OF THE WILDERNESS. 183 respectfully and carefully in his mouth, never offer-ing to grab. Dr. Merriam states that in 1883 manybears dwelt in an evergreen forest in Lewis County,New York, twenty miles west of the border of theAdirondack wilderness; in the autumn they werein the habit of crossing the intervening valley andentering the Adirondack region, passing quite nearthe town of Leyden, his home. Here, within sixmiles of his residence, nine
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . The Black Bear in the CO < H DO W 3 ° W H <<2 THE KING OF THE WILDERNESS. 183 respectfully and carefully in his mouth, never offer-ing to grab. Dr. Merriam states that in 1883 manybears dwelt in an evergreen forest in Lewis County,New York, twenty miles west of the border of theAdirondack wilderness; in the autumn they werein the habit of crossing the intervening valley andentering the Adirondack region, passing quite nearthe town of Leyden, his home. Here, within sixmiles of his residence, nine bears were killed inOctober, 1877.* Bears frequent the woods in thevicinity of Mount Chocorua, in the White Mountains,and they still haunt those giant peaks of the Sandwichrange which overlook the pleasant valley of the Bear-camp Water. During the winter of 1873 several bears werekilled in the vicinity of the Twin Mountain House,White Mountains ; and I recollect a young one, tameand intelligent, a great pet with the guests of thehotel in the succeeding summer, whose special delightwas a bit of maple sugar
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