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THE BIG NAKED BEAR, 74
never to return again. That when out, they sought
for his track, carefully attending to the course the wind
blew, and endeavouring to keep as near as possible to a
river. That every man of the party knew at what part
of the body he was to take his aim. That some were to
strike at the back-bone, some at the hedd, and others at
the heart. That the last of these animals known of,
was on the east side of the Mohicanni Sipu (Hudson’s
River) where, after devouring several Indians that were
tilling their ground, a resolute party, well provided with
bows, arrows, 8cc. fell upon the following, plan, in
which they also succeeded, viz. knowing of a large high
rock, perpendicular on dll sides, and level on the top, in
the neighbourhood of where the naked bear kept, they
made ladders, (Indian ladders) and placing these at the
rock, they reconnoitred the ground around, and soon
finding a fresh track of the animal,they hastily returned,
getting on the top of the rock, and drawing the ladders
up after them. They then set up a cry, similar to that
of a child, whereupon this animal made its way thither,
and attempted to climb the rock, the Indians pouring-
down their arrows in different directions, all the while
upon him. The animal now grew very much enraged,
biting with its teeth against the rock, and attempting to
tear it with its claws, until at length they had con-
quered it.
The Haze of 1783.
In some very ingenious Meteorological observations,
lately published by W. Paterson, M. D. of Londonderry,
he observes the Haze of 1783, slightly mentioned by
English meteorologists, was noticed by those on the Con-
tinent; and, in the months of February and March of
the same year, happened the great earthquake of Cala-
1 bria.
never to return again. That when out, they sought
for his track, carefully attending to the course the wind
blew, and endeavouring to keep as near as possible to a
river. That every man of the party knew at what part
of the body he was to take his aim. That some were to
strike at the back-bone, some at the hedd, and others at
the heart. That the last of these animals known of,
was on the east side of the Mohicanni Sipu (Hudson’s
River) where, after devouring several Indians that were
tilling their ground, a resolute party, well provided with
bows, arrows, 8cc. fell upon the following, plan, in
which they also succeeded, viz. knowing of a large high
rock, perpendicular on dll sides, and level on the top, in
the neighbourhood of where the naked bear kept, they
made ladders, (Indian ladders) and placing these at the
rock, they reconnoitred the ground around, and soon
finding a fresh track of the animal,they hastily returned,
getting on the top of the rock, and drawing the ladders
up after them. They then set up a cry, similar to that
of a child, whereupon this animal made its way thither,
and attempted to climb the rock, the Indians pouring-
down their arrows in different directions, all the while
upon him. The animal now grew very much enraged,
biting with its teeth against the rock, and attempting to
tear it with its claws, until at length they had con-
quered it.
The Haze of 1783.
In some very ingenious Meteorological observations,
lately published by W. Paterson, M. D. of Londonderry,
he observes the Haze of 1783, slightly mentioned by
English meteorologists, was noticed by those on the Con-
tinent; and, in the months of February and March of
the same year, happened the great earthquake of Cala-
1 bria.