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waving plumes of a multitude of shattars, or running | whole frame appears to be well formed. These gravefootmen, then screened him from the gaze of his sub- yards are in extent an acre and a half. jects; he was borne on by his horse at a movement almost motionless, his eyes were fixed, countenance pale, gloomy, and most melancholy; and now I beheld the same powerful sovereign decked out in a flippant uniform, very similar to that of a light cavalry officer, with florid complexion, active, inquisitive gaze, and beard almost clipt to the chin. I must say, Sultan Mahmood seemed to enjoy his emancipation from all the thraldoms of pomp and ceremony. In about half an hour the Sultan returned, and every part of the procession was managed without the slightest noise or confusion. Though, I imagine, the Sultan must have moments of great uneasiness, regarding his personal safety he does not hesitate to move amongst the crowded streets, or apparently shun occasions when attempts might be made on his life.

A PHILOSOPHICAL HOAX. Judge Breckenbridge, the elder, had a deadly hostility to philosophical societies, against which he waged a war of extermination in the papers, and in the celebrated satirical work, Teague O'Regan. Few persons living knew the cause of his ire, which fell under my observation at the time the provocation was given. In the year 1785 or 1786, he was a candidate for a seat in the legislature of Pennsylvania, for Allegany county. Parties ran high-and he was elected by the he would advocate some measures which they had very constitution party, (the democrats,) under the idea that much at heart; among the rest the reception of a certain species of province money, in payment of arrears indignation of his constituents, he not only voted, but due for lands in that country. To the surprise and made a powerful speech against the last measure. He was then naturally and violently denounced by the democratic party. About this period he became a candidate for membership in the American Philososuperior to that of most, and perhaps nearly equal to phical Society, to which his talents gave him a claim damnation" of his vote respecting the province money, that of any, of the members of that body. The "deep of the members, who were ultra democrats; and he was an inexpiable sin in the opinion of the majority was accordingly blackballed. This irritated him highly, and led him to the warfare against the Society, and against all similar institutions. The Judge said that he was wont to delight in hoaxing this Society; and among other tricks which he had played them he narrated the two following. He stole his grandmother's fan, and covered it for a considerable time in a mud puddle. Having disguised it as completely as in his power, he sent it to the Society with an elaborate description to prove that it was the wing of a bat. It was passed to the donor. A debate arose as to the was received with due solemnity, and a vote of thanks species of bat to which it belonged-and a committee of seven was appointed to ascertain whether it was the wing of a Madagascar or Candia bat. The committee sat three weeks, and after consulting Buffon's travel-Natural History and Goldsmith's Animated Nature, they reported that it must have belonged to a Madagascar hat. It was pronounced the greatest curiosity in the Museum, except a large sheet of brown paper which he had hung up in the chimney and disguised with soot and dirt, and palmed upon the Society as part of a Brahmin's shirt.-M. Carey.

Persons who by a long sojourn in Constantinople have acquired a considerable and more than superficial knowledge of Turkish affairs, assert that the late changes and ameliorations, instead of retarding, will accelerate the downfall of the Ottoman Government. The spirit of the people has been broken, and both national and religious feeling humbled and outraged. It is an arduous undertaking for a monarch endowed even with great wisdom and resolution to reform a nation, particularly a nation professing the Mohammedan faith; yet I should say, that such has apparently been effected in Constantinople; and, judging superficially, we would deem it the capital of a prosperous and vigorous government. The public buildings are undergoing general repair, old edifices are removing to be erected anew, and every where there is a stir denoting activity. Yet these signs of improvements are only observable in Constantinople, whilst the provinces are oppressed, misruled and absolutely defenceless. If the system pursued by the Sultan does not produce the results anticipated by many even to the regeneration of his people, certainly the body of the nation has been relieved from the insolence and lawless habits of the Janissaries; and those predatory bands of horsemen, the Dehlees and Hytees, no longer pillage the country. Criminals are now with facility seized and punished, and for years the Turkish empire has not been so tranquil, or so secure to foreigners, lers, or merchants.- United Service Journal.

ANCIENT BURYING GROUND.

The following account respecting several ancient burying grounds, in the State of Tennessee is by the Rev. Mr. Gwinn, an aged and respectable member of the Methodist connexion, and who resides in the section of the country where they are located.

The Arabians recommended patience by the follow"In the county of White, State of Tennessee, nearing proverb: "Be patient, and the mulberry-leaf will the town of Sparta, there have been discovered three become satin."

burying gorunds, where a very small people are deposited in tombs (coffins) of stone. The greatest length of the skeleton is nineteen inches.-Some of these people appear to have lived to a great age-their teeth being worn smooth and short, while others are full and long. Many of the tombs (graves) have been opened and the skeletons examined. The graves are about two feet deep; the coffins are of stone, made by laying a flat stone at the bottom, one at each end, and one over the corpse. The dead are all buried with their heads towards the east, and in order, laid on their backs, and their hands on their breasts. In the bend of their left arms is found a cruise or mug, that would hold nearly a pint, made of ground stone or shell of a gray colour, in which is found, one, two or three shells supposed to be sea shells.—One of these skeletons had about the neck 94 pearl beads. There are many of these burying grounds. Near the one which I examined is the appearance of an ancient town. The bones found in these graves are strong and well set, and the

POETRY.

LINES TO A YOUNG MOTHER-SPRAGUE.
Young mother! what can feeble friendship say
To sooth the anguish of this mournful day?
They, they alone, whose hearts like thine have bled,
Know how the living sorrow for the dead;
Each tutor'd voice, that seeks such grief to cheer,
Strikes cold upon the weeping parent's ear;
I've felt it all-alas! too well I know

How vain all earthly power to hush thy wo!
God cheer thee, childless mother! 'tis not given,
For man to ward the blow that falls from Heav'n.

I've felt it all-as thou art feeling now;
Like thee, with stricken heart and aching brow,
I've sat and watched by dying beauty's bed,
And burning tears of hopeless anguish shed;
I've gazed upon the sweet, but pallid face,
And vainly tried some comfort there to trace.
I've listened to the short and struggling breath!
I've seen the cherub eye grow dim in death;
Like thee I've veiled my head in speechless gloom,
And laid my first-born in the silent tomb.

SECTION XXIV.

THE SOURCE OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

Mr. Schoolcraft's Narrative of his Exploring Expedition to the heads of the Mississippi has just been published. The following description of his discovery of he extreme source-the very fountains of the great Father of Waters, is graphic and interesting :

"A fog prevented our embarking until five o'clock in the morning, (13th) and it was then impossible to discern the objects at a distance. We found the channel above the Naiwa, diminished to a clever brook, more decidedly marshy in the character of its shores, but not presenting in its plants or trees, any thing particularly to distinguish it from the contiguous lower parts of the stream. The water is still and pondlike. It presents some small areas of wild rice. It appears to be a favourite resort for the duck and teal, who frequently rose up before us, and were aroused again and again by our progress. An hour and a half diligently employed, brought us to the foot of Ossowa Lake. We halted a moment to survey it. It exhibits a broad border of aquatic plants, with somewhat blackish waters. Perch abound in it. It is the recipient of two brooks, and may be regarded as the source of this fork of the Mississippi. We were precisely twenty minutes in passing through it. We entered one of the brooks, the most southerly in position. It possessed no current, and was filled with broad-leaved plants, and a kind of pond-lily.-We appeared to be involved in a morass where it seemed equally impracticable to make the land, or proceed far by water. In this we were not mistaken; Oza Windib soon pushed his canoe into the weeds, and exclaimed, Oma mikuanna (here is the portage.) A man who is called upon for the first time to debark in such a place, will look about to discover some dry spot to put his feet upon. No such spot however existed here. We stepped into rather warm pond water, with a miry bottom. After a hundred yards, or more, the soil became firm, and we soon began to ascend a slight elevation, where the growth partakes more of the character of a forest. Traces of a path appeared here, and we suddenly entered an opening affording an eligible spot for landing. Here our baggage was prepared for the portage. The carbonaceous remains of former fires, the bones of birds, and scattered camp poles, proved it to be a spot which had previously been occupied by the Indians. The prevailing growth at this place is spruce, white cedar, tamarack, and gray pine. Here we breakfasted.

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Having followed out this branch of the Mississippi to its source, it may be observed that its existence, as a separate river, has hitherto been unknown in our geography. None of the maps indicate the ultimate separation of the Mississippi, above Cass Lake, into two forks. Little surprise should therefore be manifested that the latitude of the head of this stream is found to be incorrect. It was not, however, to be expected that the inaccuracy would be so great as to place the actual source an entire degree south of the supposed point. Such, however, is the conclusion established by present observations.

"The portage from the east to the west branch of the river, is estimated to be six miles. Beginning in a marsh, it soon rises into a little elevation of white cedar wood, matted with fallen trees, and obscured with moss. From this, the path emerges upon dry ground. VOL. II. 24

It soon ascends an elevation of oceanic sand, having boulders and bearing pines. There is then another descent, and another elevation. In short, the traveller now finds himself crossing a series of diluvial sand ridges, which form the height of land between the Mississippi Valley and Red River. This ridge is locally denominated Hauteur des Terres, where it is crossed in passing from Lac Plaie to Ottertail Lake, from which point it proceeds northward, separating the tributaries of the River des Corbeaus from those of Red River. It finally subtends both branches of the Mississippi, putting out a spur between the east and west fork, which intersects the portage, crosses the west of Itascan fork about the point of the Kakabykonce, or Little Rock Falls, and joining the main ridge, passes north-eastwardly of Lac Travers and Turtle Lake, and is again encountered in the noted portage path from Turtle Lake to Red Lake. It is, in fine, the table land between the waters of Hudson's Bay and the Mexican Gulf. It also gives rise to the remotest tributaries of the River St. Louis, which, through Lake Superior and its connecting chain, may be considered as furnishing the head waters of the St. Lawrence. This table land is probably the highest in North-western America, in this longitude.

"Every step we made in treading these sandy elevations, increased the ardour with which we were carried forward. The desire of reaching the actual source of a stream so celebrated as the Mississippi-a stream which La Salle had reached the mouth of, a century and a half (lacking a year) before, was perhaps predominant; and we followed our guides down the sides of the last elevation, with the expectation of momentarily reaching the goal of our journey. What had been long sought, at last appeared suddenly. On turning out of a thicket into a small weedy opening, the cheering sight of a transparent body of water burst upon our view. It was Itasca Lake-the source of the Mississippi."

Itasca Lake is in every respect a beautiful sheet of water, seven or eight miles in extent, lying among hills of diluvial formation, surrounded with pines which fringe the distant horizon and form an agreeable contrast with the greener foliage of its immediate shores. Its greatest length is from southeast to northwest, with a southern prolongation or bay, which receives a brook. The waters are transparent and bright, and reflect the foliage produced by the elm, lynn, maple, and cherry, together with other species more abundant in northern latitudes. The lake itself is of irregular form, which will be best illustrated by the following sketch: It has a singular island, upon which we landed, after an hour's paddling from the spot of our arrival and embarkation. We found here the forest trees above named growing promiscuously with the betula and spruce. The bones of fish and tortoise, found at the locality of former Indian camp-fires, indicate the existence of these species in the lake. We observed a deer standing in the margin of the lake. And here as well as throughout the lakes of the region, we found the duck, teal and loon in possession of their favourite seclusions. Innumerable shells, (a species of helix,) were driven up to the head of the island. Other parts of the lake yield a small species of the unio, which were found strewing the bed of the outlet. And it may here be remarked that this

shell exists, in the largest and heaviest species hereto- | he was blind and lame, injudicious, and timorous. And fore known, in the lowest parts of this stream-the Mississippi having its origin he.e.

The outlet of Itasca Lake is perhaps ten or twelve feet broad, with an apparent depth of from twelve to eighteen inches. The discharge of water appears to be copious compared to its inlet. Springs may how ever, produce accessions which are not visible, and this is probable, both from the geological character of the country, and the transparency and coolness of the

water.

The height of this lake above the sea, is an object of geographical interest, which, in the absence of actual survey, it may subserve the purposes of useful inquiry to estimate. From notes taken on the ascent, it cannot be short of 160 feet above Cass Lake. Adding the estimate of 1330 feet, submitted in 1820, as the elevation of that lake, the Mississippi may be considered to originate at an altitude of say 1500 feet above the Atlantic. Its length, assuming former data as the basis, and computing it through Itascan or west fork, may be placed at 3160 miles-182 of which comprises an estimate of its length above Cass Lake. Its general course in ascending, above the latter point, is north of west as far as the Lac Travers,-then south to its primary fork, which it continued, following up the east fork to Kubbakuana Lake, and for some distance further. It then varies a short distance, north and northwest, then southwest and south, and finally southwest, to its main source in Ossowa Lake.

MYTHOLOGY.

PLUTO.

"Plutc is king of hell, son of Saturn and Ops, and brother of Jupiter and Neptune. He had the infernal dominions allotted to him, not only because in the division of his father's kingdom the western parts fell to his lot, but also, because the invention of burying, and of honouring the dead with funeral obsequies, proceeded from him for the same reason he is thought to exercise a sovereignty over the dead. Look upon him, he sits on a throne covered with darkness, and discover if you can, his habit, and the ensign of his majesty more narrowly. He holds a key in his hand, instead of a sceptre, and is crowned with ebony.

"Sometimes he is crowned with a diadem ; and sometimes with the flowers of narcissus, or white daffodils, and sometimes with cypress leaves: because those plants most please him, and especially narcissus, since he stole away Proserpine when she gathered that flower. Very often a rod is put into his hand in the place of a sceptre, with which he guides the dead to hell: and sometimes he wears a headpiece, which makes him invisible. His chariot and horses are of a black colour, and when he carried away Proserpine, he rode in his chariot. The key which he holds in his hand signifies that when once the dead are received into his kingdom, the gates are locked against them, and there is no regress thence into this life again.

"His Greek name Plouton or Pluto, as well as his Latin name Dis, signifies wealth. The reason why he is so called, is, because all our wealth comes from the lowest and most inward bowels of the earth; and because, as Cicero observes, all the natural powers and faculties of the earth are under his direction; for all things proceed from the earth, and go thither again. The name Hades, by which he is called among the Greeks, signifies dark, gloomy, and melancholy. His name Februus, comes from the old word februo, because purifications and lustrations were used at funerals: whence the month of February receives also its appellation at which time especially, the sacrifices called Februo were offered by the Romans to this god."

truly these infirmities are justly ascribed to him; for, if he were not blind and injudicious, he would never pass over good men, and heap his treasures upon the bad. He is lame, because great estates come slowly. He is fearful and timorous, because rich men watch their treasure with a great deal of fear and care.

PROSERPINE.

"Proserpine is the queen of Hell, the Infernal Juno, the 'lady, as the Greeks commonly call her,) and the most beloved wife of Pluto, the daughter of Ceres and Jupiter. She is called both Proserpine and Libera. "When all the goddesses refused to marry Pluto, because he was so deformed, he was vexed at this contempt and scorn, and troubled that he was forced to live a single life; wherefore in a rage, he seated himself in a chariot, and arose on a sudden from a den in Sicily, where he discovered a company of very beautiful virgins gathering flowers in the sequestered fields of Enna. One of them, Proserpine, pleased him above the rest, for she surpassed them all in beauty. He carried her with him from that place, and on a sudden, sunk into the earth near Syracuse. In the place where he descended a lake arose and Cicero says, the people of Syracuse keep yearly festivals there, to which great multitudes of both sexes resort.

"The nymphs, her companions, were grievously affrighted, and fled away. In the mean time Ceres, the mother of Proserpine, seeks her daughter among her acquaintance a long time, but in vain. She next kindled torches by the flames which burst out from the top of the mountain Ætna, and went with them, to seek her daughter throughout the whole world; neither did she give over her vain labour, till the nymph Arethusa fully assured her, that Proserpine was stolen by Pluto, and carried down into his kingdom. In great anger, she immediately hastened and expostulated with Jupiter concerning the violence that was offered her daughter; and the god promised to restore Proserpine again, if she had not yet tasted any thing in hell. Ceres went joyfully down, and Proserpine, full of triumph and gladness, prepared to return into this world; but Ascalaphus reflected that he saw Proserpine, while she walked in Pluto's orchard, pluck a pomegranate, and eat some grains of it; therefore her journey was immediately stopped. Ceres being amazed at this new misfortune, and incensed at the fatal discovery of Ascalaphus, turned him into an owl, a bird said to be of an ill omen, and unlucky to all that see it: but at last, by the importunity of her prayers to Jupiter, she extorted this favour from him, that he should permit Proserpine to live half the year at least with her, in heaven, and the other half below in hell, with her husband.

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the sister of Erebus, and the daughter of the first Cha"Nox is, of all the gods, the most ancient: she was os; and of these two, Nox and Erebus, Mors (Death) was born. She is represented as a skeleton, dressed usually with a speckled garment and black wings: but there are no temples, nor sacrifices, nor priests consecrated to Mors; because she is a goddess whom no prayers can move, or sacrifices pacify.

SOMNUS AND MORPHEUS. "Somnus (Sleep) is the brother of Death, and also hath wings, like her. Iris, who was sent by Juno to the palace of this god, mentions the great benefits that he bestows on mankind; such as quiet of mind, tran"Plutus was the son of Jason, or Jasius, by Ceres: quillity, freedom from care, and refreshment of the

PLUTUS.

spirits, by which men are enabled to proceed in their labours. In this palace there are two gates, out of which dreams pass and repass: one of these gates was made of clear ivory, through which false dreams pass; the other was made of transparent horn, and through that gate true visions come to men:

Two gates the silent house of sleep adorn: Of polished iv'ry this, that of transparent horn. True visions through transparent horn arise; Through polished iv'ry pass deluding lies. "Morpheus, the servant of Somnus, who can put on any shape or figure, presents these dreams to those who sleep; he brings them from a great spreading elm in hell, under whose shade they usually sit.

MINOS, RHADAMANTHUS, AND EACUS. "These three are the judges of hell, and are believed to hold council over the souls of the dead, because they exercised the offices of judges in Crete with the greatest prudence, discretion, and justice. The first two were the sons of Jupiter by Europa: the last was the son of Jupiter by Egina. When all the subjects of queen Ægina were swept away in a plague, beside Eacus, he begged of his father that he would repair the race of mankind, which was almost extinct; Jupiter heard his prayer, and turned a great multitude of ants, which crept about a hollow old oak, into men, who afterward were called Myrmidones, from (murmex,) which word signifies an ant.

"These three had their particular province assigned by Pluto in this manner: Rhadamanthus was appointed to judge the Asiatics, and acus the Europeans, each holding a staff in his hand; but Minos holds a golden sceptre and sits alone, and oversees the judgments of Rhadamanthus and acus; and if in their courts there arose a case that was ambiguous and difficult, then Minos used to take the cognizance thereof, and decide it.

THE MOST FAMOUS OF THE CONDEMNED IN HELL.
TYPHEUS, OR TYPHON,

out to men, to observe the rules of justice and the precepts of religion :

Learn justice hence, and don't despise the gods."

NATURAL HISTORY.

THE ZEBRA.

"The Zebra is the handsomest and most elegantly clothed of all quadrupeds. He has the shape and graces of the horse, the swiftness of the stag, and a striped robe of black and white alternately disposed with so much regularity and symmetry that it seems as if Nature had made use of the rule and compass to paint it. These alternate bands of black and white are so much the more singular, as they are straight, parallel, and very exactly divided, like a striped stuff, and in other parts extend themselves not only over the body, but over the head, the thighs, the legs, and even the ears and the tail; so that, at a distance, this animal appears as if he were surrounded with little fillets, which some person had disposed in a regular manner, over every part of the body. In the females, these bands are alternately black and white; in the male, they are brown and yellow, but always of a lively and brilliant mixture, upon a short, fine, and thick hair; the lustre of which still more increases the beauty of the colours. The Zebra is, in general, less than the horse, and larger than the ass; and, although it has often been compared to those two animals, and called the Wild horse, and the Striped Ass, it is a copy neither of the one nor the other, and might rather be called their model, if all was not equally original in Nature, and if every species had not an equal right to creation.

"The Zebra is not the animal the ancients have indicated under the name onagra. There exists in the Levant, the eastern parts of Asia, and in the northern parts of Africa, a beautiful race of asses, who, like the finest horses, are natives of Arabia. This race differs from the common, by the size of the body, the slender"The son of Juno, had no father. So vast was hisness of the legs, and the lustre of the hair; they are magnitude that he touched the east with one hand, of a uniform, but commonly of a fine mouse colour, and the west with the other, and the heavens with the with a black cross upon the back and the shoulders; crown of his head. A hundred dragons' heads grew flaxen cross. and sometimes they are of a bright gray colour, with a from his shoulders; his body was covered with feathers, scales, rugged hair, and adders; from the ends of his fingers snakes issued, and his two feet had the shape and folds of a serpent's body; his eyes sparkled with fire, and his mouth belched out flames. He was at last overcome, and thrown down; and, lest he should rise again, the whole island of Sicily was laid upon

him.

TITYUS

"The son of Jupiter and Elara, was born in a subterraneous cave, in which Jupiter hid his mother, fearing the anger of Juno. She brought forth a child of so prodigious a bulk, that the earth was rent to give him a passage out of the cave; and thence he was believed to be the son of the earth. Juno afterwards persuaded this giant to accuse Latona of criminal conduct; for which Jupiter struck him with thunder down into hell: there he lies, stretched out, covering nine acres of ground with his body; and a vulture continually gnaws his liver, which grows again every month.

PHLEGYAS.

"Phlegyas was the king of the Lipitha in Thessalia, and the father of the nymph Coronis. When he heard that Apollo had deceived his daughter, he went in anger and fired the temple of Apollo at Delphi: for which the enraged god shot him through the body with and inflicted on him the following punishA great stone hangs over his head, which he imagines every moment will fall down and crush him to pieces. Thus he sits, perpetually fearing what will never come to pass; which makes him frequently call

an arrow, ment.

The Zebra is also of a different climate from the ouagra, and is only to be met with in the most eastern and the most southern parts of Africa, to Congo; it exists neither in Europe, Asia, nor Amefrom Ethiopia to the Cape of Good Hope, and thence rica, nor even in all the northern parts of Africa: those Brazils, have been transported thither from Africa; which some travellers tell us they have seen at the

those which others are recounted to have seen in Per

sia and in Turkey, have been brought from Ethiopia; and, in short, those which we have seen in Europe are of Africa is their true climate, their native country, almost all from the Cape of Good Hope. This point and where the Dutch have employed all their care to subject them and to render them tame, without having been hitherto able to succeed. That which we have seen, and which has served for the subject of our description, was very wild when he arrived at the royal nevertheless, he has been broken for the saddle, but menagerie in France; and he was never entirely tamed: there are precautions necessary: two men held the bridle, while a third was upon him. His mouth is very hard; his ears so sensitive, that he winces whenever any person goes to touch them. He was restiff, like a vicious horse, and obstinate as a mule; but, perhaps, the wild horse and the onagra are not less intractable; and there is reason to believe, that if the Zebra were accustomed to obedience and tameness from his earliest years, he would become as mild as the ass and the horse, and might be substituted in their room.

"The Zebra is chiefly found in the southern parts of Africa; often seen near the Cape of Good Hope;

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The Zebra which we have just described is confined to the mountains; the subject of the above cut inhabits the flat parts near the Cape. Till very recently, the difference between them was not accurately understood. 'The ground colour of its whole body (says Mr. Bennett) is white, interrupted by a regular series of broad black stripes extending from the back across the sides, with narrower and fainter ones intervening between each. Over the haunches and shoulders these stripes form a kind of bifurcation, between the divisions of which there are a few transverse lines of the same colour: but these suddenly and abruptly cease, and are not continued on the legs, which are perfectly white. Along the back there is a narrow longitudinal line, bordered on each side with white. The mane is throughout broadly and deeply tipped with black, and is marked by a continuation of the transverse band of the neck. The lines of the face are narrow and beautifully regular; from the centre of the forehead they radiate downwards over the eyes; along the front of the muzzle they are longitudinal, the outer ones having a curve outwards; and on the sides they form broader transverse bands. From the confluence of these bands, on the extremity of the muzzle, the nose, and the lower lip, those parts become of a nearly uniform blackish brown. The tail is white: there is no longitudinal ventral line: and a large black patch occupies the posterior part of the ear, near the tip. The hoofs are moderately large, deep in front, shallow behind, and much expanded at their margin.'"

THE BROWN COATI.

"This animal of which we are now about to treat, many authors have called coati-mondi. It is of a smaller size than the rackoon; its body and neck, its head and nose, are of a more lengthened form; its upper jaw is an inch, or an inch and a half longer than the lower one; and its snout, which is moveable in

every direction, turns up at the point. The eyes of the Coati are also smaller than the eyes of the rackoon, and are surrounded by three white spots; its hair is longer and coarser, its legs are shorter, and its feet longer; but, like the rackoon, its tail is diversified with rings, alternately black and fulvous; and to all its feet there are five claws.

"This animal has a practice of eating its own tail, which, when not mutilated, is longer than its body, and which it generally rears aloft, and can move with ease in any direction.

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"From this circumstance one general inference may be drawn; namely, that in those parts which are elongated to a great degree, and of which the extremities are consequently very remote from the centre of feeling, that feeling must be weak, and the more so, the greater the distance and the smaller the part.

"As for the Coati in other respects, it is an animal of prey, which subsists on flesh and blood, which, like the fox, destroys small animals and poultry, hunts for the

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