BEAR's Skin makes a fur in great esteem, and forms a considerable article of commerce, being used on housings, on coach-boxes, &c. In some countries, clothes are made of it, more especially bags, wherein to keep the feet warm in severe colds. Of the skins of bears' cubs are made gloves, muffs, and the like.
BEAR's Skin
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