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lander) to leave his native wilds. Karine, in a state of distraction, left her father's dwelling, and eloped with her lover: they were married by the parish Priest at Roras, and accompanied their new master with his colony of Rein Deer about eight hundred miles over the most mountainous and desolate country in the world, and at length arrived at the lofty and snow-capped mountains of Seerdahl, where their head quarters were fixed at the residence of a mountain farmer, called Gorgan Figeland. The King of Sweden, hearing that Sandesen had planted, in his new dominions, a colony which promised considerable advantages to his subjects, rewarded his labours by the present of a large sum of money. This flattering appreciation of his services, induced the indefatigable Norwegian to undertake a second time his perilous journey. He therefore placed his Seerdahl establishment under the superintendence of Figeland, and the immediate care of Jens and Karine, and, aided by the royal bounty, he again penetrated into the most remote parts of the North, to add to the number and value of his stock. It is now three years since he left Norway, and he has not yet been heard of. In the mean time, the herd of Deer suffered much from the body of wolves that had followed them from Lapland, and which had been considerably augmented on the route over the mountains of Norway. The inhabitants of Christiansand and its neighbouring towns were at length obliged to raise a subscription to buy poison for the destruction of those unwelcome visitors; and the avarice of Figeland led him not only to sell and slaughter many of the finest Deer, but also to discharge the faithful little couple and their child (the boy now in London.) They were at this period pennyless, destitute of any means of returning home, and incapable of being employed in agriculture; and, in this forlorn condition, wandered through the country, subsisting only on the casual bounty of its thinly scattered inhabitants, until they reached Stravanga, where its comparatively wealthy. population supplied them with a more comfortable existence, but did not supply the means of returning to Lapland.

"About this period," Mr. Bullock writes us, 66 I left England, intending for Swedish Finland to procure Rein Deer, for making in this country an ex

periment similar to that of Ole Sandesen, when I was informed of what had already been done by a Norwegian gentleman from Stravanga, whilst crossing the Baltic in the steam-boat from Kiel to Copenhagen. This intelligence induced me to change my route, and I passed from Elsineur to Gottenburg, travelled through Sweden to Stronstadt, and on the road visited the falls of Troletta. At Stronstadt I hired a large open boat, in which I crossed to Norway, and coasted to Christiansand; and then tra velled by land and water to Fleckford, entering the interior, by ascending the banks of the magnificent Dorga, whose waterfalls and scenery, the finest in Europe, were probably never before viewed by an English eye. I now reached the mountains of Figeland, and purchased neerly the whole remaining herd of Deer brought by Ole Sandesen; and upon inquiry for the Lapland herdsman, was informed, he might probably be met with in Stravanga. Thither I immedidiately repaired, and at last found him, and in a few days re-united him to his old Lapland friends, with whom, and his wife, he most willingly accompanied me to England; and he gratefully acknowledges that the kindness and munificence of its inhabitants have recompensed him for years of past suffering."

LYTHAM.

(Concluded from our last.)

The church on the N. W. side, stands alone with its low square tower, looking pretty in the distance, and giving a picturesque effect to the residue of the dwellings proximate, by its being white-washed annually. It has a cemetry for the defunct. Many tombstones present themselves to the eye of the visitor, describing the disastrons exit of men (in high station) whose relics "have been cast up on these shores and who have been humanely interred here. 'Richard Fitz-Roger, during the latter end of the reign of Richard the first, gave lands to the church of Durham, with this view; that a prior and bene. dictine monks might be settled at Lytham, by Preston, in a cell dedicated to St. Mary and St. Cuthbert. Its annual revenues at the suppression of monasteries in England, were worth £48. 19s. 6d. Drugdale; £53.15s, 10₫

Speed. The site as a parcel of Durham, was granted II. of Mary, to Sir Thomas Holcroft, of Holcroft, in Com. Lane, Vide, Tanners Not. Mon.

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Lytham and its immediate vicinage; contains many pleasing, salubrious and circuitious walks; for instance, all along the banks of the sea, denominated the Beach" as far as what is termed the "Star Hills", Turning yourself N. Westerly, you proceed by the tower of the church and so onwards, either to the " Hay Houses" or "Common Side", or, by the chapel and round the east front of Lytham Hall, proceeding through the crenated gateway, commonly called the "Pinfold" -by the Bowling Green public house, leading immediately into the village. Another pleasant promenade presents itself on the sea shore; when the tide is out, the sands fine; a pleasant breeze; the sun up; the air is then impregnated with Hygeiæ. This walk extends many miles; even as far as Blackpool, another noted place for sea bathing. The slope of the banks are variegated with beautiful stones of various hues and tints. Escallop, cockspur, and other species of shells, are strewed here in profusion.

Many visitors take a delight in sailing, as pleasure boats are to be had for a small sum. When the tide is up, numbers of small boats are to be seen plying, filled with visitors in search of health,-absorbing the saline particles proceeding from the salt water. Lytham, in fact, has surpassed Blackpool of late (as far as fashionable resort requires) and increases in popularity every succeeding year. A seminary of education, no doubt, would answer here if regularly established by some gentleman of eminence and literary acquirements. There is a cold and warm bath, constructed on the most eligible principles. A public promenade well formed would add greatly to the beauty of the place; as, from this improvement, the inhabitants would be greatly interested. There is a free school erected here, and well endowed

Lytham Hall, an elegant building of brick, of a square form, well lighted by a multiplicity of windows. The east front is ornamented by the coat armour of the Clifton's Family thus: Argent, on a bend sable; three mullets of the first. Crest, an arm embowed in armour proper, garnished or, holding in the gauntlet a sword argent, (hilt or.)

by the donation of a neighbouring lady of quality (now deceased) for the use of the juvenile community.

The buildings termed the "Douglass" situate on the west side of the village as you enter-are inhabited by fishermen, their wives and children, who go out in small smacks, a muscle, cockle and shrimp catching. These huts ought to be taken down, and other neat buildings erected in their place, as they reflect a disgrace on so pleasant a village as Lytham. A shop is kept here by Mr. H. Holmes, for the accommodation of visitors, who deals in groceries, drugs, stationary, jewellery, and is a most eccentric character, both as to habits and disposition. Boats go every spring tide during the bathing season, by the river ribble to Preston and return accordingly.

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Coaches are also in full requisition. Shandrews, market carts, carriers carts, &c. come and go three times per week, between Preston and Lytham, for the benefit of those who resort to this place. It appears from the year books of the 39th of Edward III. Michaelmas term, folio 24. ,, Registrum penes Thomas Clyfton, de Lythom.Cart. of Edward III. No. 65, recit cartam fundationis et cart second joan. No. 2, confirm. ducas, carcucatos in Lytham. Pat. 21st, Edward III. page 1. and 8. de corecco maris. Pat 33d. Edward III. page 3. m. ult. The only desideratum in this sublunary sphere, is healthwithout this, wealth availeth nothing-for without that valuable blessing sound constitution" we can enjoy nothing-and in the words of an elegant writer without wealth we can have nothing to enjoy." It is well known that the art of getting wealth has (and still is) the prime study of mankind, yet scarcely a thought can be spared, in order to ascertain the means of enjoying it. Riches in general as they are now employed, produce only vain things such as satiety, disease, and diseased irratibility, or, sometimes its opposite, torpid indolence. Sea bathing may in certain cases prove highly injurious, and in others truly beneficial. The highest authorities founded upon the experience of ages, prove it to be efficacious, as well as the most healthful of luxuries. Many practitioners recommend medicine rather than bathing; thus many have been drugged

with reputed recipes till death has put an end to all their miseries, and the lure of gain has been the sole object, where a remedy might be found by visiting for a month or six weeks the saline shores of Lytham. Drinking and excessive eating always ought to be avoided, but alas, this in some measure is entirely neglected-many who are in a bad state of health, look after nothing else, but procuring whatever is rare to glut their appetite, by which means, defeating the very effects they visited Lytham for, viz:-That of renovating their constitution, by exercise, temperance, cleanliness, and a watchful attention to the indications of nature, rather than to the sagest prescription, that ever emanated from the college of physicians.

From yours respectfully,

MARM. TULKET, O. S. B. Preston, February, 14th, 1822.

CURIOUS ANECDOTE

A Paris correspondent gives us the following account of one of the most ingenious stratagems played off at any time by the light-fingered gentlemen of that or any other kingdom. The last time that the late Queen of France visited the theatre in Paris, the wife of a financier whose whole merit consisted in a heavy purse, and an ostentatious display of Eastern magnificence, sat alone in a box opposite to that of her majesty. She affected to make a parade of a costly pair of bracelets which, as the queen now and then cast her eyes upon her, she fondly supposed attracted the admiration of her sovereign. She was hugging herselfin thoughts that exceedingly flattered her vanity, when a person dressed in the queen's livery entered the box.-" Madame," said he, "you may have perceived how attentively the queen has surveyed these magnificent bracelets, which though so precious and costly, still receive a greater lustre from the dazzling beauty of the arm that bears them; I am commissioned by her to request you will entrust me with one of them, that her majesty may have a nearer view of the unparalleled jewel." Melted by the flattering compliment, she did not hesitate, and delivered one of the bracelets.

Alas! she soon repented her blind confidence, and she never heard of

her bracelet until the next morning, when an exempt of the police begged to be admitted, and chid her politely for trusting so valuable a trinket in the hands of a person who was a stranger;"but Madam," added he, "make your self easy, the rogue is taken up, and here is a letter from the Lieutenant de Police, which will explain the whole. The letter was indeed signed De Crone, and contained a request that the lady would repair at twelve o'clock to the office, and in the mean time deliver to the exempt the other bracelet, that it might be compared with the first, then in his hand, that he might have sufficient proof to commit the sharper. So much attention from the chief magistrate filled her with gratitude, which she expressed in the liveliest terms, bestowing the greatest praise on the watchfulness of the police, which was in no country so vigilant as in Paris. In fine, after ordering up a dish of chocolate for the exempt, she put the other bracelet in his hand. They parted-but it was for ever; this pretended exempt proving neither more nor less than the worthy associate of the Queen's bold messenger.

SHROVE TUESDAY.

Shrove-tuesday is the tuesday after Quinquagessima sunday, or the day im mediately preceding the first of Lent, being so called from the saxon word shrive which signifies "to confess". Hence shrove tuesday signifies confession tuesday, on which day all the people in every parish throughout England (during the romish times) were obliged to confess their sins one by one to their own parish priests in their own parish churches; and that this might be done the more regularly the great bell in every parish was rung at ten o'clock (or perhaps sooner) that it might be heard by all, and that they might attend according to custom then in use. And though the romish religion has now given way to the protestant religion the custom of ringing the great bell in our ancient parish church, at least in some of them, still, remains, and obtains in and about London the name of pancake bell, perhaps because after the confession, it was customary for the several persons to dine on pancakes or fritters.

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THE above Engraving represents the head of the animal mentioned in our last Babbler, as having been seen by Mr. Campbell, at Mashow, in South Africa, the skull of which is now in the Museum of the Missionary Society in London. When shot it was called a rhinoceros, but the head being brought in, it was found to be different from all the others that had been killed. The common African rhinoceros, continues Campbell, has a crooked horn resembling a cock's spur, which rises about nine or ten inches above the nose and inclines backwards: immediately behind this is a short thick horn; but the head they brought had a straight horn projecting three feet from the forehead, about ten inches above the tip of the nose. projection of this great horn very much resembles that of the fanciful Unicorn in the British arms. It has a small thick horny substance, eight inches long, immediately behind it, which can hardly be observed on the animal at the distance of a hundred yards, and seems to be designed for keeping fast that which is penetrated by the long horn,

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so that this species of rhinoceros must appear really like a unicorn when running in the field. The head resembled in size a nine-gallon cask, and measured three feet from the mouth to the ear, and being much larger than that of the one with the crooked horn, and which measured eleven feet in length, the animal itself must have been still larger and more formidable. From its weight, and the position of the horn, it appears capable of overcoming any creature hitherto known.* Hardly any of the natives took the smallest notice of the head, but treated it as a thing familiar

*The head being so weighty; and the distance to the Cape so great, it appeared necessary to cut off the under jaw and leave it behind; (the Mashow who cut off the flesh from it had ten cuts on bis back, which were marks for ten men he had killed in his life time.) The animal is considered by naturalists, since the arrival of the skull in London, to be the Unicorn of the ancients, and the same as that which is described in the 39th chapter of the book of Job. The part of the head brought to London, may be seen at the Missionary Museum; and, for such as may not have the opportunity of seeing the head itself, the annexed drawing of it has been made.

to them. As the entire horn is perfectly solid, the natives, I afterwards heard, made from one horn four handles for their battle-axes. Our people wounded another, which they reported to be much larger.

It has been further stated in No. XV. of the Missionary Sketches, that "the head measured from the ears to the nose three feet: the length of the horn, which is nearly black, is also three feet, projecting from the forehead, about ten inches above the nose. There is a small horny projection, of a conical shape, measuring about eight inches, immediately behind the great horn, apparently designed for keeping fast or steady whatever is penetrated by the great horn. This projection is scarcely observed at a very little distance. The animal is not carnivorous, but chiefly feeds on grass and bushes.

"Mr. Campbell was very desirous to obtain as adequate an idea as possible of the bulk of the animal killed near Mashaw, and with this view questioned his Hottentots, who described it as being much larger than the Rhinoceros, and equal in size to three oxen or four horses.

"The skull and horn excited great curiosity at Cape Town, most scientific persons there being of opinion that it was all that we should have for the Unicorn. An animal of the size of a horse, which the fancied Unicorn is supposed to be, would not answer the description of the Unicorn given in the Sacred Scriptures, where it is described as a very large, ferocious, and untameable creature; but the animal in question exactly answers to it in every respect.

"The Hebrew name by which it is called is Reem, which signifies Might or Strength. The translators of the Old Testament into Greek called it Monoceros; in the Latin (or Vulgate) translation it is Unicornas. In various countries it bears a name of similar import. In Geez it is called Arwe Harich, and in the Amharic, Auraris, both signifying "the large wild beast with the horn." In Nubia, it is called Girnamgirn, or "horn upon horn." This exactly applies to the skull in the Society's Museum, which has a small conical horn behind the long one. From the latter we presume this animal has

been denominated the Unicorn, it being the principal, and by far the most prominent horn, the other, as before intimated, being scarcely distinguishable at a short distance. The writer of the article "Unicorn," in the Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica, observes, (defining the term,) "the Scriptural name of an animal, which was undoubtedly the one-horned Rhinoceros."

"Some authors, both ancient and modern, have described an animal, which they call the Unicorn, said to resemble a horse, or deer, with a long horn, represented in English heraldry as one of the supporters of the royal arms: but there is reason to doubt the existence of any such quadruped. It is probable that the long horn ascribed to such an animal is that of a fish, or, as termed by some, a Sea Unicorn, called the Monodon, or Narwhol, confounding the land and sea animal together. The horn of the fish here alluded to, was formerly imposed on the world as the horn of the Unicorn, at an immense price. On the whole, it seems highly probable that the Rhinoceros, having one long horn pro jecting from its face, is the only Unicorn existing, and although it has a kind of stump of another horn behind the long projecting one, yet that it has been denominated Unicorn, (or one horn,) from that which is so obvious and prominent; and certainly its great bulk and strength render it such a formidable and powerful animal as is described in the Sacred Scriptures."

The Crocodiles, Crabs, and YellowTortoises of the Mississippi.

The crocodile inhabits only the warm countries of Asia, Africa, and America; and if this formidable animal is occasionally transported to Europe, history records it as an extraordinary circum stance. In the year 58 before J. C. Scaurus, during the fetes which he gave at Rome, at the period of his edileship, caused a canal to be dug, which he filled with water, and in which be showed five crocodiles. The Emperor Augustus likewise filled the Flaminian Circus with water, and exposed to the gaze of the multitude, thirty-six living crocodiles, which were killed by an

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