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out of London, and took the castle of Kingston, then Bishop of Ely, employed him in various embassies, and belonging to Gilbert Clare, Earl of Gloster, which he lastly, Queen Catherine chose him as her advocate in entirely demolished; and in the civil wars of Charles I. conjunction with Bishop Fuller. Kingston was distinguished for its loyalty, as the first The style of living adopted by this favourite of forarmed force that declared for the king was said to have tune was so magnificent, that he is said to have kept in been there assembled ; and there the last struggle in his house a hundred servants, to fifty of whom he gave behalf of the royal cause was inade. When Catherine four marks wages, and to the others forty shillings of Arragon came to England, to espouse Charles II., she a-year, allowing every one of them four yards of cloth lodged at Kingston the night before she arrived at for his winter livery, and three and a half yards for his

Kennington Palace." But it does not seem to be summer livery. He died in the same year as Edward VI., further noticed in history.

(1553) and is buried in Ely Cathedral, having lived to see Nevertheless, by a strange coincidence, Kingston, or no less than six monarchsin succession occupy the British as Camden calls it, “ the King's Towne," was one of the throne ; whilst the changes in the political world, and few places noted for the celebration of the Kyngham, an still more, the reformation in the religion of the state, annual game or sport, conducted by the parish officers, were equally remarkable events, occurring during the who paid the expenses, and accounted for the profits of extraordinary career of this quondam vicar of Kingston. it. It was something similar to the May games, but upon-Thames. held later in the summer, and the performers went from house to house levying contributions, and dressed in a sort of masque, of which the principal characters were Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Little John, a friar, a lady,

THE FEAST OF THE ROSE. and several Moors" or morrice dancers. In the reign of Henry VIII. this game was so much

The ancient custom of the Feast of the Rose has been the fashion at Court, that the king and his nobles would attributed for many ages past to St. Medard, Bishop of sometimes appear in disguise as Robin Hood and his Noyon, who lived in the 15th century, in the time of men, “drest in Kendal, with hoods and hosen." In

Clovis. This good bishop, who was at the time Grand these days, when the schoolmaster is so much abroad, Master of Salencey, a village half a league from Noyon, it is almost superfluous to observe that Marian was the in the south of France, after passing many of his name assumed by the beloved mistress of Robert, Earl years of early life in endeavouring to do all the good of Huntingdon; who followed him while he was in a possible, so that he was beloved by all the neighbourstate of outlawry, during which time he was the original hood-after many years' consideration, he at last made Robin Hood, the favourite hero of the earliest English up his mind to present, on every New Year's Day, a sum ballads. The real story of Lord Huntingdon and his of twenty livres and a chaplet of roses, to the lass of the fair Marian is chronicled in the old poem of the “Nut village who was held in the highest estimation, and of browne Mayde," supposed to be written (1400) in the the most virtuous reputation. It is said that, he pre

reign of Henry IV., and subsequently paraphrased by sented this glorious prize to his youngest sister, who 2. Prior in that of Queen Anne.

was proclaimed by the public voice as the Village Rose. Kingston is also celebrated for having been the first He is seen on the steps of the porch of the chapel of St. place of which Nicholas West was vicar, in the reign of Medard, situated at the extremity of the village of

Henry VIII. This celebrated man was the son of a Salencey, dressed in his pontifical robes, placing the is' baker at Putney, where he was born, and having distin- chaplet of roses on the head of a villager, who is dressed

guished himself at the grammar school there (1483) he in a plain white dress, with only a scull cap of black was chosen a Scholar of King's College, Cambridge, in velvet on her head, and her hair reaching to her knees. the year of Edward IV.'s accession. There he gave

The villagers of Salencey soon found it to their benefit little promise of future eminence, as, in the words of to try and be the Village Rose for the year. The young Fuller, “ he was a rakehell in grain.” “One of his vicious men, it was soon seen, always chose those who had held

pranks was setting fire to the provost's lodgings, for that honour in preference to the others. St. Medard, 1.b which he was expelled the university; but having sca

struck with these advantages, founded his yearly gift by -- sonably become reformed in his conduct, he was subse- letting off to tenants twelve acres of ground attached

quently re-admitted, and betaking himself to hard study to his estate, which paid the yearly rent of twenty pounds ie became an eminent scholar, and, as his first prefer- and all incidental expenses of the ceremony of the fête. nent, obtained the vicarage of Kingston-upon-Thames.

The present Lord of Salencey enjoys to this day the How often do we see that the locality in which a man

choice of the Rose of the Village. chances to enter upon public life mainly influences his

The 8th of June is the day on which the fête of St. tuture fortunes. It happened that the two favourite Medard is held. About two o'clock in the day, the

alaces of Henry VII., namely, Richmond and Non- yillage lass, clothed in white, her hair floating loosely on * "uch, were in the immediate vicinity of Kingston, her shoulders, accompanied by her family and twelve

whilst, at the same time, Wolsey himself, the model of young lasses, also dressed in white, with a broad blue ourtiers, at once the envy and the warnir

of the am

ribbon or shoulder knot, arm in arm with twelve young itious, resided at Hampton Court. Whether the pre

men of the village, march to the chateau of Valencey epts and example of Wolsey taught him the way to

to the sound of tambourines, violins, bagpipes, &c. The pod oyal favour, or whether West's acknowledged talents lord and lady of the manor come out to meet them, and

„rst recommended him to Henry's notice, is uncertain ; she then makes a neat speech, in which she returns erhaps the accidental circumstance of neighbourhood her thanks for the honour and preference he has bepay have contributed more than either to the rapid ad- stowed on her; then, following his lordship or his repreancement of the baker's son ; for conversational talent sentative, giving each an arm, is preceded by the music, nd wit have always been tickets of admission to the followed by a number of persons, who entering the ables of the great, and as the college irregularities of chapel proceed to the choir, attend vespers, and sing

e vicar were not uncongenial to the taste of the pro- hymns in chorus. The vespers being finished, the clergy gate monarch, his eminent learning and extraordinary and people form a procession, and adjourn to the cbapel bilities as a politician made him doubly acceptable as

of St. Medard; the Curate then blesses the crown and companion, when majesty sought, in the retirement of wreath of roses, which is on the altar table. The on de country, relaxation from the cares of royalty. Had chaplet is entwined with a light blue ribbon, edged on est's first preferment been in Westmoreland, instead the under side with a silver band. After the Bene

(Kingston-upon-Thames, he possibly would never have diction, and a discourse analogous to the subject, the en sen as rapidly in the favour of Henry; who, after officiatinę priest places the crown on the head of the

petowing on him several other benefices, made him Rose of the Village, who is on her knees, and receives twenty pounds in a small velvet purse, in the presence | echoed by the deep-drawn Bismillah of the listening of the lord of the manor, and the officers of justice. coterie. The prose of Abdool was as highly inflated as

The Rose of the Village, now crowned, is led by the his poetic style; he delighted in the most flowery and lord of the manor, or his bailiffs, and the whole of the wordy pomp of the Persian school. The following note, assembly, to the parish church, where they chaunt an written by him, and translated by a Hindoo, is an ancient Te Deum of St. Medard to the sound of mus- amusing specimen of the unavoidable bathos, insepaquetry by the troops and young men of the village. On rable from this style of composition. It may be prefaced, leaving the church, the lord of the manor, or his repre- that Abdool had been requested, during his morning sentative, leads the Rose of the Village to the middle of walk, to inquire what time would be desirable for our garthe great street of Valencey, where the house steward of dener to send for some shrubs, promised us by a native, the lord had spread a large table furnished with six as transplants from his parterre. Some circumstance plates, six knives and forks, two bottles of claret,two metal preventing his return at the time proposed, we received pints, twoglasses, two water bottles, two white loaves, one this specimen of epistolary grace. “ As long as the brown one, and a small cheese. The assembly then garden of the world is adorned with tender cypresses, cheer the Rose, and do her homage by presenting her a statues of beautiful mistresses, and roses which are the small silver arrow, two balls, a small silver whistle, cheeks of beloved ladies, so long may the garden of which she is to blow three times at the house of the lord wishes, which belong to the great Captain, (may his of the manor before she will accept any offer of marriage prosperity be perpetual !) who is a bud of the tree of from the villagers. The house-steward then pays the chief-ship, and a sprout of that of greatness, be flourishattendants for their assistance that day, thirty sous, or ing and green by the watering of Divine goodness 28. 6d. each.

Your servant, (i.e. I,) after presenting the nosegay of After this the assembly of villagers adjourn to the his solicitous prayer to God for your advantage, which court of the chateau, under a large tree, where the lord is gathered by the hand of well-wishing and sincerity, of the manor leads off the dance with the Rose of the and united with the threads of those prayers which are Village ; after that the dancing becomes general among performed at dawn and midnight, wishes, that your the villagers, to the sound of rustic music. The bal sacred mind may know, that when your servant (i. e. 1) champêtre is always stopped at the setting of the sun. requested from Gopal Josee, son of Radha Josce, the The Rose of the Village, on the day after, at midday, plants of Neem, which he agreed to give yesterday; he invites all the lasses of her acquaintance to a collation, answered, that to-morrow, at noon, when the gun fires, followed by dancing, or other games, as may be. you may send your servant to his garden, and he will

This is the origin of the Feast of the Rose ; it is no less give the plants which are required. interesting when it is affirmed that throughout the

“ (Signed) ABDOOL KUREEM, numerous villages in France where the fête is held,

"Moonshee of Shiraz." riotous meetings, drunkenness, debauchery of any kind The beauty of a Mahommedan letter consists in the is never known, and that the honour of receiving a length of the exordium, the number of similes, and the chaplet of roses at Salencey had excited an emulation paucity of facts introduced

.. As Abdool in all the surrounding villages in the various depart. Kureem was long with us, I endeavoured to teach him ments to be present at the meeting, to see the Rose of English, with the hope of increasing his capabilities as a the Village presented with the order of Merit and tutor. His memory proved so defective, that I erenVirtue.

tually abandoned my task in despair. The reading-book Louis XIII. being on a visit at the chateau of selected was a collection of easy fables, chosen with the Varennes, a small village near Salencey, M. de Belloi, hope of the style attracting him, from its resemblance to the lord of the manor, begged of that monarch to present that of his own authors. The first tale concerned the a gift to the village lass who was considered the most sapient doings of a learned cat, which he read, and revirtuous. Louis XIII. consented, and requested M. le read, for a considerably longer period than could have Marquis de Garde, his colonel of the guards, to be been required for the composition of the volume, and. present at the next Rose Meeting, and to order the moreover, the whole was explained to him in the purest chaplet, the purse of gold, and the blue ribbon, which Persian. At length I ventured to ask, if my pupil com were presented with all due formality that year, and have prehended the fable. “No.” Did he at least under been ever since through the government. It is authen- stand the meaning of the word Cat, about which si ticated in the royal records of France.

much had been studied? The answer was appalling. “Kat!" replied the poet, with the puzzlet, look of one

hopelessly plunged in a sea of doubt; “ Kat? Allab Miscellaneous.

Kureem ! God is merciful, but by the beard of my father,

your servant cannot tell the meaning of Kat." From The Mahommedans are particularly proud of their this period I left Abdool to the manufacture of verses, acquirements, and suppose themselves possessed of great to the enjoyment of a remarkable appetite, and to his imaginative powers. They are surprising egotists, and, favourite meditations on the probable locality of the like the Spaniards, poor and proud to a proverb. A fountain of life,” in which he as firmly believed, as in short time since, a Moonshee was domesticated with us, the philosopher's stone, and the houris of Paradise.who afforded a curious example of this union of unfor- “ Western India in 1838,” by Mrs. Postans. tunate qualities.

Abdool Kureem had neither lodging, nor wherewithal N.B. The Second Volume of this periodical is now ready; Corea to satisfy the cravings of a Persian appetite : but, like for binding, with Table of Contents, may be ordered of all his clars, his manners were pleasing and mild, which won for him our commiseration. He accompanied us

CONTENTS. from the Presidency, and although a professional Moon

Frank Fairlegh; or, Old slice, he was soon discovered to be grossly ignorant of Bianca, a Ballad, (with Il

Companions even the construction of his native language. His lei

lustration by Dal ziel)..... 241 Scenes, Chap. VI............ 948 sure was devoted to inditing verses, which, execrable as

The Maiden Aunt, No. III. 244 Old Records of New Roads,

The Emperors.... they were, he imagined equal to Ferdousi’s : such was

No. IV....... our poor poetaster's opinion of his own talents, that History of the Cotton Ma

The Feast of the Rose......... 353

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CURIOSITIES OF SCIENCE.

present century, offers nothing analogous to it. Uranus, LE VERRIER'S NEW PLANET.

Ceres, and Pallas, were discovered in the course of re“ In the whole history of Astronomy-I had almost searches which did not contemplate the discovery of said, in the whole history of Science," writes Professor planets. Juno and Vesta were discovered in following Airy, "there is nothing comparable to the circum- up a series of observations suggested by a theory which, stances attending the discovery of the planet exterior fruitful as it has been, we may almost venture to call to Uranus. The history of the discoveries of new fanciful. Astræa was found, in the course of a wellplanets in the latter part of the last century, and in the conducted examination of the hcavens, apparently con

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templating the discovery of a new planet, as only one for about five minutes. It was not highly explosire, of many possible results. But the motions of Uranus, detonated only when partially struck with a hammer, examined by philosophers who were fully impressed and required to be heated considerably to cause it to with the universality of the law of gravitation, have explode. Mr. Richard Phillips, one of the editors of long exhibited the effects of some disturbing body : the Philosophical Magazine, in agreement with the mathematicians have at length ventured the task of above statement, mentions that Mr. Reeks, of the Muascertaining where such a body could be; they have seum of Economic Geology, when drying some gun pointed out that the supposition of a disturbing body, cotton, and drawing it out, heard a crackling noise, moving in a certain orbit, precisely indicated by them, which induced him to present it to the gold-leaf eleewould entirely explain the observed disturbances of trometer, when it instantly caused strong divergence ai Uranus; they have expressed their conviction, with a the leaves. firmness which I must characterise as wonderful, that

PURITY OF ANCIENT COINS. the disturbing planet would be found exactly in a cer- Silver coins, after having been long in the earth. tain spot, and presenting exactly a certain appearance ; are often found covered with a salt of copper. This and in that spot, and with that appearance, the planet has been found. Nothing in the whole history oj Astro may be explained by supposing that the alloy of copper,

at the surface of the coin, enters into combination with nomy can be compared to this.”-- Proceedings of the the carbonic acid of the soil, and being thus removed. Royal Astronomical Society.

its place is supplied by a diffusion from within : and WHAT WERE THE HABITS OF THE DODO?

in this way, it is not improbable that a considerable

portion of the alloy may be exhausted in process of All the records we have of the history of this remark-time, and the purity of the coin be considerably inable extinct bird are to be found in the reduced highlycreased.-Professor Henry, U.S. finished figure by Lavery, in his famous painting of " Orpheus Charming the Beasts," now in the collection

THE GEOLOGY OF NORWAY, AS CONNECTED WITH THE at the Hague ; in the recent discovery of the skull of

ABSENCE OF A FEUDAL NOBILITY. the bird, in the Museum of Natural History at Copen- A PHYSICAL circumstance, almost peculiar to Norwar, hagen ; and by a comparison of the cast of the head of and apparently very little connected with the social the bird, in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with state of a people, was of great influence, in concurrence those of other recent and extinct species of birds. with accidental circumstances, in preventing the rise of Added to this, is some satisfactory evidence from a com- an aristocracy. The stone of Norway is gneiss, or other parison of the bones of the foot, which have recently hard primary rock, which is worked with difficulty, and been very skilfully and judiciously illustrated by the able breaks up in rough, shapeless lumps, or in thin schistose curator of the Ashmolean Museum. Upon the whole, plates; so that walls cannot be constructed of such buildProfessor Owen considers the structure of the foot, and ing materials without great labour, time, and command general form of the beak, to lead us to regard the Dodo of cement. Limestone is not found in abundance in as a modified bird of prey. Unable to fly, it could have Norway, and is rare in situations in which it can be had small chance of obtaining food by preying upon easily transported; and even clay, which is used as a members of its own class; and, if it did not exclusively bedding or cement in some countries for rough lumps subsist on dead and decaying organized matter, it most of stone in thick walls, is scarce in Norway. probably restricted its attacks to reptiles, certain fishes, has, of necessity, in all times and with all classes, les crustacea, &c. Possibly, a search for the bones in the the only building material. This cireumstance has been superficial deposits

, the beds of rivers, and the caves in of great influence in the middle ages on the social con the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues, may enable dition of the Northmen. Castles of nobles or kins, naturalists further to illustrate the history of this commanding the country round, and secure from sudden curious bird.

assault by the strength of the building, could not be constructed, and never existed, in Norway. The hug

fragments and ruins of baronial castles and strongholds. On the 2d of September, 1845, a quantity of volcanic

so characteristic of the state of society in the middk dust fell in the Orkney Islands, which was supposed to ages in the feudal countries of Europe, and so omni have originated in an eruption of Hecla, in Iceland : mental in the landscape, are now wanting in Norway it has now been fully ascertained that an eruption of The noble had nothing to fall back upon but his muthat volcano took place on the morning of September ship; the king nothing but the support of the people.2d, about nine o'clock. so as to leave no doubt of the The Sea-kings of Norway; by G. Luing. justness of the conclusion. The dust had thus travelled abont 600 miles !

The reign of the Emperor Nicholas has been dista

guished by the important discovery, that portions d Mr. Bowman, Demonstrator of Chemistry at ng's the great eastern regions of Siberia are highly acCollege, has ascertained“ gun cotton” to be capable of riferous, viz. in the government of Tomsk and Teniseil application to a purpose different from any hitherto where low ridges, similarly constructed to those on the described ; viz. that of insulating an electrically charged castern flank of the Ural, and, like them, trenchira body. Mr. Bowman, while unravelling some cotton from north to south, appear as offsets from the gres which had matted together while in the acid, was struck east and west chain of the Altai, which separate with the tenacity with which it adhered to his fingers ; Siberia from China; and here it is curious to remark and, on lightly holding a small flock of it, and approach that, a very few years ago, this distant region did not

ca ing a finger of the other hand, or any foreign body, afford a third part of the gold which the Ural produced. found that it was strongly attracted towards it; thus but, hy recent researches, an augmentation so rapid and differing essentially from the unprepared cotton. By extraordinary has taken place, that, in 1843, the east examining the two balls at short intervals of time, byern Siberian tract yielded considerably upwards pret means of a delicate gold-leaf electrometer, Mr. Bowman two millions and a quarter sterling, raising the found that the one suspended by the cotton retained its gold produce of the Russian empire to near three * charge considerably longer than the other; thus proving lions sterling !-Sir R. S. Murchison, F.R.S. the cotton to be a more perfect insulator than the silk, which has hitherto been chosen as best adapted for the purpose of insulation. The acid employed was a mix- The high mean annual temperature of this healthy ture of equal parts of nitric acid, sp. gr. 1.46, and part of Cumberland, and especially the very limited sulphuric acid, gr. 1.83, and the cotton was immersed range of the thermometer in the winter season thert,

TRAVELS OF VOLCANIC DIST.

GOLD IN SIBERIA.

ELECTRICITY OF GUN COTTON.

MILD TEMPERATURE OF WHITEHAVEN.

as compared with inland towns, and many localities in which, anterior to its elevation, was the chief abode of the south of England, are very remarkable. During the Mammoths, and look to the other parts of Europe, Revere frosts, the thermometer at Wigton and Carlisle where their remains also occur, how remarkable is it is frequently 15 or 20 degrees, and in the south as that we find the number of these creatures to be justly much as 30 or 35 degrees lower than at Whitehaven. proportionate to the magnitude of the ancient masses Even at Paris, Lyons, and other places in France, the of land, which the labours of geologists have defined ! temperature in winter is often lower than at White Take the British isles, for example, and let all their haven. Thus, on January 7, 1846, the thermometer at low, recently elevated districts, be submerged ; let, in Lyons marked 99 centigrade, (below the freezing point,) short, England be viewed as the comparatively small equal to 17° of Fahrenheit; at Whitehaven, the ther- island she was, when the ancient estuary of the Thames, mometer throughout the winter was not lower than including theplains of Hyde Park, Chelsea, Hounslow, and 28° 5'; and on the night in question, the lowest point Uxbridge, were under the water,-- when the Severn exto which it fell was 36° or 19° higher than at Lyons. tended far into the heart of the kingdom, and large Carnations continued to bloom throughout the season, ea tern tracts of the island were submerged ; and there and numbers of wild strawberry plants in flower, were will then remain but moderately sized feeding grounds noticed in the immediate vicinity of the town. " On for the great quadrupeds, whose bones are found in the the whole,” says Mr.J. F. Miller, in Jameson's Journal, gravel of the adjacent rivers and estuaries. This limited

we believe there are very few localities in Great area of subsistence could necessarily only keep up a Britain, which are favoured with so mild and genial an small stock of such animals; and, just as we might expect, atmosphere, or are less subject to those sudden vicissi- the remains of British Mammoths occur in very small tudes of temperature which render the climate of numbers indeed, when compared with those of the England so trying to those subject to catarrhal diseases, great charnel-houses of Siberia, into which their bones bronchitis, or other more alarming affections of the had been carried down during countless ages, from the lungs and air-passages."

largest mass of surface which geological inquiries have yet shown to have been dry land during that epoch.

Jameson's Journal. D. LE Rileur has submitted to the Paris Academy of Science, a paper on the sensation experienced at great heights; and which has been called by various medical Mr. A. SMEE, F. R. S. has just written an elaborate writers, the Mal de Montagne. De Saussure, Hum- work in proof of the present potato malady being caused boldt, Boussingault, and many other travellers, gene: by the Aphis vantator, which comes upon the plant in rally felt acceleration of the puise, prostration of the winged state, and there brings forth its young alive. strength, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and other After a short time, the insect brings forth other young, symptoms similar to those of sea sickness. D. Le which young, of themselves, reproduce; thus, from a Rileur and his companions, Messrs. Bravais and Mar- single specimen, a plant may become speedily covered tins, in ascending Mont Blanc, in August, 1844, suffered with the insects. It has been proved by Reamur, that most during the first hour after their arrival at the in five generations, one Aphis may be the progenitor of summit of the mountain. In the second hour, they 5,904,900,000 descendants; and it is supposed that, in felt better, and after that they suffered very little; but one year, there may be twenty generations; and Mr. they bail no appetite during the whole of the time that Smee knows no reason why the vantator should be less they were at a height exceeding 4000 yards. The prolific than its congeners. The vantator, likewise, author distinguishes between the sensations created by attacks many other plants : upon one specimen of the the mere fatigue of ascension, and those which are beet, Mr. Smee states, that not less than 30,000, or caused by the atmosphere in elevated positions ; the 40,000 may sometimes be found. latter are the acceleration of the pulse, the loss of appetite, and sometimes somnolency.

SENSATION AT GREAT HEIGHTS.

THE POTATO MALADY.

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WHITE RACE IN ALGERIA.

THE MAMMOTHS OF THE BRITISHI ISLES.

THE GAME IN

BARSTONE PARK.

M. GUYRON confirms the statements of Reysounel,

FRANK FAIRLEGH; Bruce, and Shaw, describing the Aures in the province of Constantine, Algeria ; they have white skin, blue

OR, OLD COMPANIONS IN NEW SCENES. eyes, and fair hair; they do not form distinct tribes,

By F. E. S. but predominate in some, and are very rare in others, and have inhabited the country for a very long time.

CHAP. VII. DR. Buckland has happily and successfully shown that, for long ages, many species of carnivorous animals,

We had arrived within a quarter of a mile of the gate; now extinct, inhabited the caves of the British islands. Again, in low tracts of Yorkshire, where tranquil lacus and I had just settled, to my thorough dissatisfaction, tine (lake like) deposits have occurred, there bones that the old footman must be a humourist, and had (even those of the lion) have been found so perfectly diverted himself by making a kind of April-fool out of unbroken and unworn in the fine gravel in which they season of me, when through the trees, which at that are heaped up, (as at Market Weighton,) that few per: spot stretched their huge branches across the road, so as sons would be disposed to deny, that such feline, and

to form a complete arch, I fancied I perceived the flutter other animals, once roamed over the British isles, as well as other European countries. Why, then, is it im- of a woman's dress; and, in another moment, a turn in probable, that large elephants, with a peculiarly thick the drive disclosed to my view a female form, which I integument, a close coating of wool, and much long instantly recognised as that of Clara Saville. shaggy hair, should have been the occupants of wide Withont a minute's hesitation, I sprang to the ground tracts of Northern Europe and Asia ? This coating, Dr. before Lawless had time to pull up, and, saying to him, Fleming has well remarked, was probably as impene

I shall be back again directly ;-wait for me-there's trable to rain and cold, as that of the monster ox of the Polar Circle. Such is the opinion of Sir R. J. Mur

a good fellow," I bastily entered a winding path, which chison, who thus accounts for the disappearance of the led through the trees to the spot where I had seen the British Mammoths :

young lady, leaving my companion mute from astonish“When we turn from the great Tiberian continent, I ment. Up to this moment, acting solely from a sort of

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