The arms of the skielober are a rifle, to which is attached a broad leathern strap, passing over the shoulder, and a short sword. He carries with him, besides, a staff (skiestoken), seven feet in length, and rather more than an inch in diameter. This, which is held in the right hand, is armed at one end with an iron spike, and above it is placed a circular piece of wood. The use of the former is to penetrate the frozen snow, and of the latter to prevent the staff sinking in, giving thus a firm support to the bearer. The skiestok, or skiestav, as it is called, is likewise, as has been before observed, of considerable use to the skielöber, in enabling him to moderate his speed, make sudden wheels, and preserve the necessary balance during the descent of steep declivities.

The engraving represents a company of the SkatingSoldiers, formed in three ranks, which, in the act of advancing, are commanded to charge. The first rank is running forward in the art of firing, followed by the others, which are in like manner afterwards advanced. When the skielöber is about to fire, as the left foot is put down, the staff is stuck into the snow on the right hand, which affords him a rest at the same time for his rifle.

This corps to the skate-exercise unites that of the ordinary chasseurs, or light troops, of which it may be regarded as constituting a part, as it performs all their duties, differing from them only by marching on skates, which gives it a very great superiority. The skielöbere move with singular agility, and, from the depth of snow, are safe from every pursuit of cavalry or infantry. On the other hand they can attack the enemy's columns on march, and harass them incessantly on both sides of the road, without incurring any danger to themselves.

Cannon-shot

would produce little effect directed against them, dispersed as they are at the distance of 200 or 300 paces; and their movements are so rapid, that, at the very instant you would expect to see them a second time, they have already disappeared, to appear again in a quarter where you are not the least aware of them.

The real superiority of the Skating-Soldiers, however is chiefly shown when the enemy halt after a long march. Whatever precautions may then be taken, they are in constant danger from troops, which have no occasion for path or road, and traverse with indifference marshes, lakes, rivers, and mountains. Even in those parts where the ice is too feeble to bear the weight of a man, the skielöber glides safely over by the mere rapidity of his motion. No corps, therefore, can be so proper to reconnoitre in Winter, to give information of the movements of an enemy, and to perform, in fact, the functions of a courier.

Their provisions and baggage are transported on light wooden sledges (skie kjelke), which one man alone draws with ease, by the help of a leathern strap These are also passing over the right shoulder. extremely serviceable in conveying such as may have been severely wounded.

The Norwegian skielöbere have, on many occasions, been extremely serviceable in preserving the communication between distant corps, in surprising small detachments of the enemy, and harassing their march, whether when advancing or retreating.

Many instances are related of the astonishing speed with which the skielöbere have forwarded intelligence from one part of the country to another. One in particular has been recorded. When the Swedish

siege of Frederikshald, in Norway, and messengers were to be sent with the intelligence to different parts of the kingdom, some skielöbere, which were with the army, volunteered to run on skies to Dronthiein, a distance of more than 400 English miles, and they reached that place twelve hours before a messenger, despatched at the same time, and who had used the greatest possible expedition *.

Some idea may thus be formed of the difficulty, nay, even impossibility, of making any effectual impression by arms upon a country like Norway, possessing a force of this description, when her impassable mountains are considered, and the unshaken spirit, which has always animated every class of her inhabitants, when called upon to support their independence.

[Abridged from Sir ARTHUR DE CAPELL BROOKE'S
Winter in Lapland and Sweden.]

EARLY ASSOCIATIONS.

IT is said, that at that period of his life when the consequences of his infatuated conduct had fully developed themselves in unforeseen reverses, Napoleon, driven to the necessity of defending himself within his own kingdom, with the shattered remnant of his army, had taken up a position at Brienne, the very spot where he had received the rudiments of his early education, when, unexpectedly, and while he was anxiously employed in a practical application of those military principles which first exercised the energies of his young mind in the College of Brienne, his attention was arrested by the sound of the church-clock. The pomp of his imperial court, and even the glories of Marengo and of Austerlitz faded for a moment from his regard, and almost from his recollection. Fixed for awhile to the spot on which he stood, in motionless attention to the well-known sound, he at length gave utterance to his feelings, and condemned the tenour of all his subsequent life, by confessing that the hours then brought back to his recollection were happier than any he had experienced throughout the whole course of his tempestuous career.

-KIDD.

HUMILITY.

THE bird that soars on highest wing,
Builds on the ground her lowly nest;
And she that doth most sweetly swing,
Sings in the shade, when all things rest:
In lark and nightingale we see
What honour hath humility.
When Mary chose "the better part,"
She meekly sat at Jesus' feet;

And Lydia's gently opened heart
Was made for God's own temple meet.
Fairest and best adorn'd is she
Whose clothing is humility.

The saint that wears heaven's brightest crown
In deepest adoration bends;

The weight of glory bows him down
Then most when most his soul ascends.—
Nearest the throne itself must be
The foot-stool of humility.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Drontheim was at this time invested by a corps of the Swedish army, amounting, it is said, to 7000; and which, upon the intelligence being received of the death of the king, broke up their quarters, and commenced their retreat. The winter season had commenced, the cold was extreme, and this ill-fated corps had to make their way across the mountain-chain, exposed to the severity of a northern climate, and destitute of shelter. They were closely followed by 200 of the skielöbere, intent only upon harassing their retreat, and little thinking, probably, of the catastrophe which was about to spare them further pursuit. One night had been more than usually severe: the following morning, on the skielöbere coming up with them in order to make their usual attacks, the extraordinary and melancholy spectacle presented itself of an army frozen to death; and every morsel of wood, even the very stocks of their muskets, having been burnt to warm themselves. A battalion of Finlanders alone, it is said, escaped, from their having endured the severity of the cold better than the Swedes.

A SWAMP IN THE SOUTHERN STATES
OF AMERICA.

THE low swamps, to which I have elsewhere alluded, are a feature of the Southern States, and at that time were extended on every side by the swollen state of the great rivers which descend from the Alleghany to the eastward, and worm their way through the low alluvial regions of this part of the continent. They had also their own peculiar scenery: and those in the vicinity of the Pedee and Santee have also their historical interest, as being the scenes of the guerilla warfare, carried on in the revolutionary war by Tarlton and Marion,-both excellent officers and brave men.

The great extent of land covered by the lastmentioned rivers and their adjoining swamps, and the great floods to which they are liable, interpose constant checks to the regular and easy progress of travellers; and we found that the passage of both was attended with a certain degree of detention and difficulty. In both cases the carriage had to be left behind; and, in the first, our persons, and the mailbags and baggage, were transferred to a canoe, on the edge of what seemed a boundless forest, situated in an over-flooded swamp. As we paddled silently into its recesses, on a fine and sunny Spring morning, we seemed to be removed further and further from the day;-such was the effect of the dim twilight, shed upon the black pool, from the crowded state, and vast size, of the cypress and water-oak, which rose around us, cloaked in that long, gray, parasitical moss, which weaves its funeral strings into a dusky mantle, upon the branches.

Sometimes we shot noiselessly into a little opening, where, high above us, we caught a glimpse of the blue sky, and the sun gleaming brightly upon the catkins and keys of the oak and maple, on the topmost branches, or descried the soaring flight of the broadwinged turkey-buzzard-the vulture of the south, and the most detestable of the feathered race in its habits, but the most exquisitely graceful in its aërial movements. He builds his nest in hollow trees, in the deepest recesses of these and similar morasses, and with such jealous care, that it is very seldom discovered.

The cypress is the prince of the swamp, often growing to an immense size. It is ordinarily seen rising from an expanded and conical buttress or root, six or eight feet from the ground, into a clear shaft of eighty feet and upwards, from which it spreads into long, sweeping branches, covered in Summer with very light and graceful strings of foliage, and almost invariably cloaked by the Spanish moss. Alligators abound in all the waters in this latitude; but we were too early for them. The genial warmth which I have described, as arousing the whole vegetable world, has not yet been able to thaw his torpid heart and stomach, in which, if the vulgar belief may be credited, a stout log of wood lies entombed all Winter long; and I met with a farmer, who assured me, that he had shot one, in the early Spring, that attacked his hog-pen, which had " a pinechunk and two rocks in his maw.'

[LATROBE'S North American Rambles.]

FREE inquiry, if restrained within due bounds, and applied to proper subjects, is a most important privilege of the human mind; and, if well-conducted, is one of the greatest friends to truth. But when reason knows neither its office nor its limits; when it is employed on subjects foreign to its jurisdiction, and revelation itself is, as it were, called in to bow down to its usurped authority;-it then becomes a privilege dangerous to be exercised, because a want of due respect for the mysterious doctrines of Religion seldom fails to enter into a total disbelief of them.-DAUBENY.

RICHES AND HAPPINESS. As Ortogrul of Bassa was one day wandering along the which the shops offered to his view, and observing the streets of Bagdat, musing on the varieties of merchandize different occupations of the multitudes on every side, he was awakened from his meditation by a crowd that obstructed his passage. He raised his eyes, and saw the chief Vizier, returning from the divan to his palace.

Ortogrul mingled with the attendants, and being supposed to have some petition for the Vizier, was permitted to enter. He surveyed the spaciousness of the apartments, admired the walls hung with golden tapestry, and the floors covered with silken carpets, and despised the simple neatness of his own little habitation.

"Surely," said he to himself, "this palace is the seat of happiness, where pleasure succeeds to pleasure, and discontent and sorrow have no admission. Whatever Nature has provided for the delight of sense is here spread forth to be enjoyed. What can mortals hope or imagine which the master of this palace has not obtained? The dishes of Luxury cover his table, the voice of Harmony lulls him in his bowers; he breathes the fragrance of the groves of Java, and sleeps upon the down of the cygnets of Ganges. He speaks, and his mandate is obeyed; he wishes, and his wish is gratified; all whom he sees obey him, and all whom he hears flatter him.

"How different, Ortogrul, is thy condition, who art doomed to the perpetual torments of unsatisfied desire, and who hast no amusement in thy power that can withhold thee from thy own reflections! They tell thee that thou art wise; but what does wisdom avail with poverty? None will flatter the poor, and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves. That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness, who lives with his own faults and follies always before him, and who has none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration. I have long sought content, and have not found it: I will from this moment endeavour to be rich."

Full of this new resolution, he shut himself in his chamber for six months, to deliberate how he should grow rich: he sometimes proposed to offer himself as a counsellor to one of the kings of India, and sometimes resolved to dig for diamonds in the mines of Golconda. One day, after some hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion, sleep insensibly seized him in his chair. He dreamed that he was teach him to grow rich; and as he stood on the top of a hill ranging a desert country in search of some one that might shaded with cypress, in doubt whither to direct his steps, his father appeared on a sudden standing before him. "Ortogrul," said the old man "I know thy perplexity listen to thy father; turn thine eye on the opposite mountain." Ortogrul looked, and saw a torrent tumbling down the rocks, roaring with the voice of thunder, and scattering its foam on the impending woods. "Now," said his father, "behold the valley that lies between the hills." Ortogrul looked, and espied a little well, out of which issued a small rivulet. "Tell me now," said his father, "dost tnou wish for suaden affluence, that may pour upon thee like the mountain torrent, or for a slow and gradual increase, resembling the rill gliding from the well. "Let me be quickly rich," said Ortogrul; "let the golden stream be quick and violent." "Look round thee," said his father, once again." Ortogrul looked, and perceived the channel of the torrent dry and dusty; but following the rivulet from the well, he traced it to a wide lake, which the supply, slow and constant, kept always full. He waked, and determined to grow rich by persevering industry.

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Having sold his patrimony, he engaged in merchandise, and in twenty years purchased lands, on which he raised a house, equal in sumptuousness to that of the Vizier, to which he invited all the ministers of pleasure, expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford. Leisure soon made him weary of himself, and he longed to be persuaded that he was great and happy. He was courteous and liberal: he gave all that approached him hopes of pleasing him, and all who should please him hopes of being rewarded. Every art of praise was tried, and every source of adulatory fiction was exhausted. Ortugrul heard his flatterers without delight, because he found himself unable to believe them. His own heart told him his frailties; his own understanding reproached him with his faults. "How long," said he, with a deep sigh, "have I been labouring in vain to amass wealth which at last is useless! Let no man hereafter wish to be rich who is already too wise to be flattered.-Idler.

UPON examining the charcoal heap, which proved to be in that stage of the process which is termed quenching; and upon making some inquiries of the burner, we found that the construction of his heap, so far as the arrangement of the wood was concerned, differed from any other with which we had become previously acquainted. This, it is plain, is one of the most important points connected with the manufacture. In order, therefore, to render this part of the process intelligible, we may generally state that the chief object in view is, to ensure the equable and the least wasteful conversion of wood into charcoal. Such a result is obtained by the arrangement of entire or mostly cleaved blocks of wood (obtained from timber usually felled in a previous season), in a solid hemispherical or conical pile. The pile is protected above from access of air by a coating of turf, the grass side being turned inwards; above which again, is spread an exterior dressing of mixed earth and charcoal ashes. Now, the points in which the processes employed by various burners, respectively differ, are the arrangement of the wood in the heap, and the method of firing it.

We hope to be able by an outline sketch to explain the brief description which we are about to give of four different modes of constructing the charcoal

heap. By the first method, a circle of billets radiating from a central space filled with brushwood, is disposed horizontally, the extremity of each billet being twelve inches asunder from its neighbour. In the centre, four strong billets are set up, converging together at the summit, where they are united by two cross pieces. The inclination of these upright billets being taken for a guide, courses of wood are then piled up around the central space, until the whole area assigned for the purpose (a circle of about 100 feet), has been filled. Above these, a second radiating horizontal course is laid; above which again, is a second course of erect billets, the central billet being long enough to reach from the cross-pieces below to the crown of the pile above. The interstices between the larger are filled up with the smaller pieces of wood. The dressing of turf, and earth, and ashes, is then laid on; and the pile is fired by drawing out the central billet, and introducing a match through the passage thus formed, amongst the dry brushwood at the base.

By the second method, the whole of the wood is disposed in radiating horizontal courses, excepting three central upright billets, which preserve a clear space of dry, loose firing, above which is one upright billet (the "club" or "brand"), projecting, as in the first method, above the summit of the pile. The ignition of this pile is effected by drawing out a billet of the lowest course, and the central one also above:-the fire being applied from below, and the

ventilation modified by help of the central aperture, &c.

By the third method, the lowest range of billets is strictly erect, being supported in that position by the

sides of the pit. The upper courses are horizontal, excepting three erect billets, which, as before, are disposed around a central cavity, filled with light and readilyinflammable materials. The fire is, in this case, applied at the top; and it is observable that the whole pile or stack of wood presents a more conical form than either of the three other piles, as delineated in our cuts. The design, as we judge, of the arrangement and form of this and the following, and of the two previously-described piles, we shall have occasion to observe upon, when we have detailed the method of the burning on the moor.

The section given below will explain sufficiently the general structure of the "heap" which we were inspecting. We shall need to do no more, then, than particularize the arrangement of the apparatus

for firing. We have already seen that, by the former methods, three or four upright logs were employed to enclose a free space in the centre of the heap; but in

the latter a more elaborate contrivance is resorted to. A triangle of three.billets is first formed upon the ground, the extremities overlying each other; the interior area of which triangle is rather less than onethird of the diameter of the base of the heap, such base averaging ten feet. Above this first triangle, a second is laid of less dimensions; and a third above that, also contracted; and so on, to the height of three feet, at which elevation the opening is so much contracted as to be just large enough to admit the lower extremity of the club or brand. The preliminary stage thus adjusted, and filled with the firing, the lower range of billets is completed, in courses inclining upon the triangle, to the extent of the circular area. The brand is next erected in its place, and sustained by billets piled around, of which the thicker ends are turned inwards; so that the pile shall in this part assume a conical form, and the billets, upon the removal of the brand, and after the firing of the heap, shall close in and fill up the cavity then left. The sides are next filled in with wood of various sizes; and lastly, the exterior is secured as before by means of the double courses of turf, and mingled earth, and ashes.

The peculiarity of the several methods of charring, which we have now endeavoured to describe, will become more obvious, if the structure of the piles, in relation to the position of the firing, he attentively observed. In consequence of the arrangement adopted in the first and fourth methods, the wood is ignited for the most part at the sides; i. e., in a direction parallel to the axis. In the second and third methods, the charring commences at the extremities, in a direction at right angles to the axis of growth. The first and fourth methods will plainly be attended with the advantage of rapid burning; the second and third by a more slow process of separation of the volatile from the solid vegetable and mineral matter composing wood,-a portion of matter of a metallic or saline nature remaining after the combustion of the purest charcoal in contact with air. The acceleration of the charring will, however, much depend mitted that a central aperture is secured permanently upon the ventilation of the pile; and it must be adby the construction of piles 2 and 3, while it is as plainly wanting in piles 1 and 4, after the brands have been removed, and the firing has taken place. The rationale of the arrangement of the several piles, or rather of the first and fourth, as compared with the second and third, may perhaps be sought for in the convenience of piling, depending upon the form of the wood employed by the burner. The more cylindrical billets would conveniently pile in parallel, vertical, and horizontal courses; the more taper logs in variously inclined ranges.

Such are the methods ordinarily parsued in the arangement of wood for charring. The subsequent processes of firing and burning, regulating the progress and intensity of the fire, and ultimately quenching it, exercise all the ingenuity and experience of the Charcoal-burner. The ventilation is managed by means of holes bored in various parts through the exterior coating of earth to the wood; the admission of air by such apertures accelerating combustion with a trifling loss of carbon. The object is, of course, to consume all the volatile portion of the wood, at the same time that the carbon is left undisturbed; and it is really surprising to observe, upon raising a portion of the exterior coating, and exposing the layer of turf, how unaltered are the most tender blades of grass in form, although converted into a black and very brittle charcoal. During the burning, it may be necessary to subdue the excess, as well as to supply air for the acceleration of the ignition: and the process is modified in that respect by means of an addition of earth to the exterior coating, (fig, 9); occasionally by a free sprinkling of water upon it. The quenching of the heap, which ordinarily occupies four days in burning, is effected by the same means: and the charcoal, as quickly as prudence and convenience will permit, is then extracted from the heap, packed into sacks, and transferred to the dealer's or principal's hands, lest rain or damp should have access to it, and thereby seriously deteriorate its It is believed, also, quality and value in the market. that the newly-charred wood is less subject to fracture, than afterwards upon exposure to the influence of the air.

S.

THE greatest things, and the most praiseworthy that can be done for the public good, are not what require great parts, but great honesty.

WITH respect to the preservation of life and health—wisdom or folly may be shown by our use or abuse of the various articles which we consume in the daily acts of eating and drinking.-HODGKIN.

ON CHRISTIAN HOPE. As man, in his present state, is enveloped in doubt and uncertainty; as he can realize but an indistinct vision of his prospects, through the mist of futurity which overshadows them; Hope acquires a great importance in the history of his character, and is as an Angel sent down from heaven to walk by his side, to conduct his steps through the wilderness, and to lift up her exhilarating touch, to cheer him amidst the gloom with which he is surrounded. It is with reluctance that he ever allows this choice companion to abandon him; and it is not until every calculation has been baffled, every effort failed, and every fair probability of deliverance or success has vanished, that he suffers himself to be precipitated into the dungeon of dark despair. What too frequently involves him in misery and disappointment, however, is, that instead of cherishing the hope which came down from heaven, and whose guiding light would have conducted him to heaven, he attaches himself to those illusive images, which, like the luminous exhalations of marsh ground, can only embarrass him and inveigle his steps.

In the character of Jehovah, as formed of every combination of moral excellency, as uniting in itself every thing which not only can awaken love and excite fear, but also encourage confidence, and in the Gospel, as an economy of grace, there is a hope set before every man, which can neither deceive nor disappoint him; which can neither raise his expectations too high, nor will suffer his apprehensions to sink too low. It is by this means that the balance of the human mind is maintained, that the equipoise of the character is preserved; that, while the sea of danger is rough, while the waves of discouragement rise high, there may be a principle within, which, by taking anchorage upon the immovable rock of the Divine promises, may keep the vessel above water, and secure its stability amidst the storm.

The prospective circumstances of man, connected with those aids and supports which are pledged in the promises of God, are so accurately and remarkably proportioned, and so mutually adapted to each other, as to inspire hope without engendering presumption. The highest in the scale of Christian attainment can seldom rise higher than the full assurance of hope; and he who is yet at the foot of the hill, is not debarred some of its consolations. Like the early traveller, he is cheered by some golden streaks of the morning sun, resting upon the acclivities before him; and these afford him an encouraging presage of the splendour of the noon-day light. It is a distinguished feature of Christian hope, that it continues firm and immovable amidst all the changes and perturbations of life. It has a steadiness which resists the impression of every gale; it has a buoyancy which enables it to rise superior to every wave. How great, therefore, must be the dreariness and desolation of that breast,-how lonely must be the gloom of that heart, which is a stranger. to hope! If Alexander, when he had distributed all his possessions, still thought himself rich in the possession of a hope, which was dependent upon the issue of sieges and battles, upon the vicissitudes of fortune, and all the contingences of war,-how secure, how affluent, may he regard himself, who has all that is immutable in Jehovah, for the foundation of his hope, and has all that is comprised in the unsearchable riches of Christ, as the inventory of his promised wealth!

[DAVIES' Estimate of the Human Mind.]

THE discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.-LAVATER.

USEFUL ARTS. No. XVII.

THE SHEEP.

THE wild species of which the cultivated Sheep are varieties, is found in several parts of the world, but this animal has been domesticated from the earliest ages of human existence. From its structure and habits, however, it is less under the immediate control of man, and is not so much changed by culture but that, when neglected, it can speedily relapse into a state of wildness. Like all other animals, the Sheep is materially influenced by climate, in its size, and especially in the character of its wool, or fur. In northern latitudes, it is clothed with a thick coat of fine, long, curled hair, which is of that particular texture and form desigshorter and thinner, and resembles somewhat that of other nated by the term wool: in warmer climates, the hair is animals. Like the Ox genus, the Sheep, in certain circumstances, loses its horns, or they remain constantly undeveloped in whole breeds.

The British breeds of Sheep are more numerous than those of our cattle. The object of the farmer in his endeavours to improve the breed of sheep, is to obtain fine carcasses and fine fleeces; the latter, an important point, has been best attained by the introduction of the Spanish breed, termed Merinos, to cross with our own.• Without entering into an enumeration of the varieties, and of the technical points for which each is preferred, it may be stated, that the principal distinction of the different kinds of Sheep, in these islands, arises from their being horned or otherwise, and on the colour of the face and legs, which, in the heath breed, common on the most mountainous and wildest parts of our northern counties, are black. This variety has large spiral horns, and coarse shaggy wool, but. like that of all animals nearly approaching to a wild state, the flesh is rich and finely flavoured.

much prized for its fleece as well as its size. The largest breed is the Teeswater, a hornless kind,

In a state of nature the Sheep sheds its superfluous wool on the approach of warm weather. The time for shearing, or for cutting off the fleece, varies accordingly with the temperature of the season; but it should always take place some time before the animal would naturally lose its coat. In different places, shearing is performed from about the middle of April to the end of July. The animals, when about to be shorn, are driven into ponds, where they are washed, and are then folded, or penned, in enclosures, to dry. The shearing is performed by men sitting on the ground, who take the animals between their legs, and laying them on their sides, cut off the wool close to the skin, by means of a pair of spring-shears, that open of themhand to use them. The fleeces are rolled up after any selves, and consequently only require the action of one dirty wool is removed, and tied round by the portion that comes off the shoulder.

The male Sheep is termed a Ram; some are afterwards, when full-grown, called Wedders; the female is the Ewe, the young is a Lamb. The Sheep lives naturally from fifteen and usually produces only one at a time, but twins are not to twenty years; the female goes with young five months, unfrequent.

Every part of the animal is made use of. The flesh, the heart, liver, kidneys, and spleen, as food; the intestines are manufactured into cat-gut for musical instruments, and many other purposes; the skin is prepared into leather and parchment; the bones are used to fabricate handles, spoons, and toys, and for all purposes for which ivory is of all northern nations is prepared, and from which many employed. The wool is the material from which the clothing other species of woven fabrics are made. The internal and loose fat makes tallow for candles. From eighteen months to two years is usually the period at which sheep are fattened for food.

and Lambs sold in Smithfield-Market, for the consump In the year 1830, there were 1,287,070 head of Sheep tion of the metropolis. Taking the gross net weight of each animal on an average at 70 lbs. and 50 lbs. respectively, gives a weight of 64,353,500 lbs. of net mutton and lamb meat, which, added to the beef and veal consumed in the same time, makes a total of 154,434,850 lbs. net weight of solid butchers'-meat, eaten annually in London.

THE GOAT

SPECIES of this animal are found wild in every part of the world, but that which is domesticated in Europe, is, perhaps, peculiar to this quarter of the globe. It is kept