Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c. for cabinets of natural history / By Charles Waterton.

  • Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865.
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c. for cabinets of natural history / By Charles Waterton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of uncommon size and shape.’' These were nothing in the Second JOUKNEY. eyes of Pliaeton—go he would—so off he set—full speed, four in hand. He had a tough drive of it; and after doing a prodigious deal of mischief, very luckily for the world, he got thrown out of the box, and tumbled into the river Po. Some of our modem bloods have been shallow enough to try to ape this poor empty-headed coachman, on a little scale, making London their Zodiac. Well for them, if tradesmen’s bills, and other trivial perplexities, have not caused them to be thrown into the King’s Bench. The productions of the torrid zone are uncommonly Torrid zone, grand. Its plains, its swamps, its savannas, and forests, abound with the largest serpents and wild beasts; and its trees are the habitation of the most beautiful of the feathered race. While the traveller in the old world is astonished at the elephant, the tiger, the lion, and rhino- ceros, he who wanders through the torrid regions of the new, is lost in admiration at the Cotingas, the Toucans, the Humming-birds, and Aras. The ocean, likewise, swarms with curiosities. Proba- Flying-fish, bly the Flying-fish may be considered as one of the most singular. This little scaled inhabitant of water and air, seems to have been more favoured than the rest of its finny brethren. It can rise out of the waves, and on wing visit the domain of the birds. After flying two or three hundred yards, the intense