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MARITIME COUNTIES IN ENGLAND & WALES. 81

ENGLAND contains 40 Counties or Shires, and WALES 12.

The Lord knows all the things we do,
Our thoughts to Him are known;
The bad He hates, but loves the good,
And marks them for His own.

How blest is he who trusts in God,
And strives to keep His law;

Whose deeds are just, whose heart is pure,
And full of truth and awe.

Those under the burning sun of Africa are the most terrible. Such as are bred in a more temperate climate are less dangerous. Since the Romans introduced them for combat in their amphitheatres, where mankind have increased, their numbers are diminished. In the vast deserts of Zaara, where man has not fixed his habitation, the lions are in great numbers; a single lion will attack a caravan, and, opposed to numbers, combat till he dies; but where lions inhabit peopled countries, as in Morocco and India, they seldom attack any but flocks and herds. Lions are frequently tamed, their keepers play with them and chastise them, and some have been bred up with domestic animals : but it is dangerous to suffer them to go too long without food, or to irritate them. His tongue is rough, and beset with prickles, as hard as a cat's claws; indeed the structure of his paws, teeth, tongue, and inward parts, are the same as the cat. The lion sometimes follows the jackals, or wild dogs, for the spoil they run down in hunting. The roaring of the lion is extremely loud; in anger he erects his mane, lashes his tail, and discovers his teeth, made for destruction. The lion is said to be the king of beasts: some of them grow to nine feet in length, and six feet high. He is not cruel, and kills no more than he eats. His eyes are always bright and fiery. His look is grave and firm; his gait is slow and stately: his hair, from the top of the head and mane, falls down to his knees. He will with ease carry off an ox. He is about five years in his growth, and some live sixty years. The lioness has no mane, and is about one-third less than the lion.

There are three kinds of bears:-the Brown Bear of the Alps; the Black, or North-American Bear, which is smaller; and the Great Greenland, or White Bear: all of which are of the same original, and owe their variations to food and climate; they are equally carnivorous, treacherous, and cruel. The male and female do not inhabit the same den; and the young bear, when tamed, seems gentle and placid.

The White Greenland, or Polar Bear, is twice or three times as large as the common bear, and has been known twelve or thirteen feet in length. They sometimes try to board armed ships, and defy every obstacle without fear, when it is with difficulty they can be prevented. They seldom remove far from the shores, and chiefly subsist on fish, seals, and dead whales: devour birds, hares, deer, and other animals; berries and many kinds of vegetables. This animal has great sagacity, and, when attacked, if not immediately killed by a musket shot, or disabled from running, he rushes on his antagonist with a spirit of vengeance; should he not be at the instant received on the spear, the hunter is almost certain of death. The morse, or whale, is one of its greatest enemies, and in general triumphs, in consequence of the advantage of its formidable tusk; but the white bear is more than a match for a young whale.

The Urus, or Wild Bull, is a variety of the Ox kind, and is chiefly to be met with in the extensive forests of Lithuania. It grows to a size almost equal to the elephant, and is quite black, except a stripe mixed with white, that runs from the neck to the tail, along the top of the back; the eyes are red and fiery, the horns are short, thick, and strong, and the forehead is adorned with a kind of garland of black curled hair, and some of them have beards of the same; the neck is short and strong, and the skin has an odour of musk. The female, though not so big as the male, exceeds the largest of our bulls in size: nevertheless, her udder is extremely small. Upon the whole, however, this animal, which greatly resembles those of the tamed kind, probably owes its variety to its natural wildness, and the richness of the pastures where it is produced. He is generally taken by pit-falls, dug in the ground, covered with boughs of trees, and grass, when the inhabitants get on the other side, provoking the animals to follow them; the furious animal, running head foremost, falls into the pit prepared for him, and is then overcome and slain.