Christopher North on the Whale.

Tickler. What fish, James, would you incline to be, if put into scales?

Shepherd. A dolphin: for they hae the speed o' lichtnin. They'll dart past and roun' about a ship in full sail before the wind, just as if she was at anchor. Then the dolphin is a fish o' peace,—he saved the life o' a poet of auld, Arion, wi' his harp,—and oh! they say the cretur's beautifu' in death. Byron, ye ken, comparin' his hues to those o' the sun settin' ahint the Grecian isles. I sud like to be a dolphin.

Shepherd. Let me see—I sud hae nae great objections to be a whale in the Polar Seas. Gran' fun to fling a boatfu' o' harpooners into the air—or, wi' ae thud o' your tail, to drive in the stern posts o' a Greenlandman.

Tickler. Grander fun still, James, to feel the inextricable harpoon in your blubber, and to go snoving away beneath an ice-floe with four miles of line connecting you with your distant enemies.

Shepherd. But, then, whales marry but ae wife, and are passionately attached to their offspring. There they and I are congenial speerits. Nae fish that swims enjoys so large a share of domestic happiness.

Tickler. A whale, James, is not a fish.

Shepherd. Isna he? Let him alane for that. He's ca'd a fish in the Bible, and that's better authority than Buffon. Oh that I were a whale![285]

With these sentences, we conclude this book, as well as our selections on the whale. In the Museum at Edinburgh may be seen one of the finest, if not the most perfect, skeleton of a whale exhibited in this kingdom. Our young readers there can soon see, by examining it from the gallery, that the whale is no "fish."

INDEX.

Addison and Steele on the peculiarities of the natural history collectors, [5]-[8]
Albert's horse at Brussels, [256].
Ammonianus and his ass, [279].
Androcles and the lion, [167]-[169].
Ant-eater, the great, [225]-[229].
Arctic fox, [142]-[148].
Ass, Sydney Smith on sagacity of, [283].
Ass and zebra, [276].
Ass's foal, [278].
Asses with deers' antlers fastened on heads, [284];
duty free, [284].
Asylum for animals, [265], [266].
Austrian general and a bear, [58], [59].
Aye-aye, its singular structure and habits, [36]-[38].
Baboons, Lady Anne Barnard on, [24], [25].
Babylon, bas-relief of dog found at, [86], [87].
Babyrusa, [240].
Back, Sir George, anecdote of Arctic lemming, [196].
Badger, [71];
anecdotes of, [72]-[75].
Baird, origin of name, [241].
Barrentz on white or Polar bear, [64].
Barnard, Lady Anne, pleads for the baboons, [24], [25];
on some rabbits, [222].
Bats, fantastic faces of, [38], [39].
Bearable pun, [61].
Bears, [56], [57];
anecdotes of, [58]-[70].
Beechey, Captain, on Polar bear, [63];
on the walrus, [184]-[186], [187].
Bell, Professor, on cats, [149].
Bell, Sir Charles, on the head of a pig, [239].
Bell-Rock horse, [257].
Bentham, Jeremy, and his pet cat, [150]-[152];
and the mice, [205], [206].
Berwickshire, names of places in, derived from swine, [241].
Bess, a pet hare of the poet Cowper's, [216].
Bisset and his trained monkeys, [25], [26];
musical cats, [152], [153];
trained hares and turtle, [221], [222];
learned pig, [250].
Black Dwarf's cat, [157].
Blomfield, Bishop, bitten by a dog, [88].
Boar, wild, [239]-[245].
Border, cow getting across, [309].
Borneo, the home of the orang, [11].
Boswell imitates the lowing of a cow, [305].
Bradford, Earl of, on the number of legs of a sheep, [296].
Bristol, Bishop of, comparing Cambridge freshmen to puppies, [89].
Brock, or badger, [72].
Brown, Dr John, "Rab" and "Our Dogs," [78].
Browning, Mrs Elizabeth Barrett, lines on her dog Flush, [89]-[93].
Browning's, Robert, description of rats, [199].
Bull, an Irish, [304].
Bull, Rev. Wm., Newton, and Toplady, anecdote of, [312].
Bull-baiting at Olney, [313];
Windham on, [314].
Bull-ring, Philip IV. in, [310].
Bullock and Dr Adam Clarke, [305], [306].
Burke, Edmund, question when interrupted, [149];
anecdote of his humanity, [257], [258].
Burns' "Twa Dogs," [81], [82];
the field-mouse, [206]-[208].
Bush-pig, [148].
Bussapa, the tiger-slayer, [162]-[164].
Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, Bart., and his dog Speaker, [93], [94].
Byron on his dog, [79];
on Boatswain, a Newfoundland dog, [94], [95];
pets, [26], [27];
bear at Cambridge, [59].
"Calamity," a horse of Sydney Smith's, [272].
Calf, a great, [304].
Calves and kine, [304].
Camel, Captain Wm. Peel on, [287]-[289].
Campbell, Colonel, account of Bussapa and the tiger, [162]-[164].
Canova's sculptured lions and the child, [171]-[173].
Carnac and the she-goat, [299].
Cats, [149]-[161].
Cat's letter, by Montgomery, [156].
Cattle of Sydney Smith, and their universal scratcher, [311].
Chalmers, Dr, and the guinea-pig, [223], [224].
Cheiroptera, the order which contains the bats, [38], [39].
Children and horses cannot explain their complaints, [269].
Chimpanzee, Mr Mitchell on the habits of a young one, [22]-[42].
China, roasted pups eaten in, [78].
Chiromys Madagascariensis, its habits, [36]-[38].
Choiropotamus Africanus, [140].
Choiseul, Madame de, and her pet monkey and parrot, [33], [34].
Chunie, the elephant, [230].
Clare's dog and Curran, [98].
Clarke, Dr Adam, on Shetland seals, [175], [176];
his bullock Pat, [305].
Clive's, Lord, handwriting misunderstood, [230].
Cockburn, Lord, and the sheep at Bonaly, [298].
Collie at Cultershaw, [82].
Collins, Wm., R.A., and Sir David Wilkie, [3];
the rat-catcher with the ferret, [76];
his dog Prinny, [96], [97];
paints Odell's old donkey, [277].
Collins, W. Wilkie, Sir David Wilkie's first remark on him, [3], [4].
Constant and his cat, [153].
Cook's sailor, who took a fox-bat for the devil, [40].
Cooke, Major-General, [189].
Coon, a gone, [71].
Couthon and the spaniel, [195].
Cowper's narrative of his pet hares, [213]-[219];
dog Beau and the water-lily, [79]-[81].
Cows, anecdotes of, [306]-[311].
Cross, Edward, of Exeter Change and Walworth, [33].
Cruelty to horses in Ireland, [275].
Cunningham, Major, on Ladak dog, [86].
Curran on Lord Clare's dog, [98].
Cuvier and the fossil, [236].
Cynocephali, or African baboons, [9], [24], [25].
Dalhousie, Earl of, and the ferocious red-deer, [291].
Dandie Dinmont educates his terriers, [122].
Davis, Sir George, and the lion, [170], [171].
Deer family, [290], [291];
their sensibility of smell, [300].
Dessin Island, rabbits on, blind of one eye, [222].
Dickens on sellers of bears' grease, [59], [60].
Dog and the French murderers, [104], [105].
Dog-cheap, [100].
Dog-matic, [113].
Dog-rose, [133].
Dogs, [77]-[87].
Douglas, General, and the rats, [201].
Dragon-fly exhibited at a show, [61].
Dresden, Battle of, General Moreau killed at, [113].
Drew on the instinct of dogs, [98]-[100].
Dromedary, Capt. Peel on its rate of motion, [289].
Dunbar, Rev. Rowland Hill at, [261].
Durian, an eastern fruit, [14].
Earl's Court, Hunter's menagerie at, [300]-[302].
Eastern dogs, [84], [85].
Echidna aculeata, [192].
Edentata, [228].
Edmonstone, Dr, on Shetland seals, [176]-[182].
Eglintoun, Countess of, her fondness for rats, [200], [201].
Elephant and his trunk, [232];
anecdotes of, [234]-[236].
Epomophorus, a genus of tropical bats alluded to by the poet-laureate, [39].
Erskine's sheep and the woolsack, [298].
Esquimaux dogs, [78], [86].
Ettrick Shepherd's monkey, [27], [28];
on fox-hunting, [139]-[141];
on whales, [316].
Fabricius on Arctic fox, [143].
Ferret, [75], [76].
Field mouse turned up by Robert Burns, [206]-[208].
Findhorn fisherman and monkey, [29], [30].
Flush, lines to her dog, by Mrs Browning, [89]-[93].
Foote, Samuel, makes cows pull bell at Oxford, [306].
Forster, Dr, on the fox-bats of the Friendly Islands, [42], [43].
Fournier on the squirrel, [196].
Fowler the tailor and Gainsborough the artist, [2], [3].
Fox, Charles James, on the poll-cat, [77].
Fox, [138].
Fox-hunting, from the "Noctes," [139]-[141].
Fox-bats, particulars of their history, [41]-[47].
Frederick the Great and his Italian greyhounds, [104].
French count at deer-stalking, [293], [294];
dogs, time of Louis XI., [110];
marquis and his monkey, [30], [31].
Fry, Mrs, on Irish pigs, [252].
Fuller, Thomas, on destructive fieldmice, [208], [209].
Fuller on Norfolk rabbits, [223].
Fuseli on Northcote's picture of Balaam and the Ass, [281].
Future state of animals, Toplady on, [312].
Gainsborough and Fowler the tailor, [2], [3];
his wife and their dogs, [100], [101];
pigs, countryman on, [252];
kept an ass, [277].
Garrick and the horse, [259].
Gell, Sir William, his dog, [101].
General's cow at Plymouth, [308].
George III. at Winchester, meets Garrick, [259].
George IV. visited at Windsor by "Happy Jerry," [32].
Gilpin's, Bernard, horses stolen and recovered, [260].
Gilpin's, Rev. Mr, love of the picturesque, [308].
Gimcrack, the widow, her letter to Mr Bickerstaff on her husband's peculiarities, [6]-[8].
Giraffe, anecdotes of, [291]-[295].
Glirine animals, [195], [212].
Goats, anecdotes of, [299], [300].
Goethe on stag-trench at Frankfort, [294];
on Roos's etchings of sheep, [296].
Good enough for a pig, [251].
Gordon, Duchess of, and the wolf-dog, [102], [103].
Gorilla and its story, [9]-[22].
Graham, Rev. W., on dogs in the East, [85].
Grange, the, near Edinburgh, [30].
Gray compares poet-laureate to a rat-catcher, [204], [205].
Gray. Dr, gets large specimen of gorilla, [17].
Greenland seal, [181].
Grotta del Cane, the poor dog at, [111], [112].
Guilford, Lord Keeper, and the rhinoceros, [230].
Guinea pig, Dr Chalmers, [223], [224].
Gunn, Mr, on tiger-wolf, [192], [193].
Haff-fish, the Shetland name for seal, [179].
Hairs or hares, [220].
Hall, Robert, and the dog, [106].
Hamilton, Sir Wm., his definition of man, [1], [2].
Hanover rats, [202], [203].
Happy Jerry, the rib-nosed mandrill, [31], [32].
Hardwicke's lady, sow, [253].
Hares, Mrs Browning on Cowper's, [212];
petted by Cowper the poet, [213]-[219].
Hastings and the refractory donkey, [279].
Heard, the herald, on the horse of George III., [261]
Hedgehogs, [48].
Hill, Rev. Rowland, prayed for his horse, [261], [262].
Holcroft on race-horses, [263]-[265].
Hood's dog Dash, [110].
Hook and the litter of pigs, [253].
Hooker's sea-bear in Regent's Park, [175].
Hospital for old cows and horses, [309].
Horse, [256];
that carried stones to build Bell-Rock lighthouse, [257].
Horse exercises, a saying of Rowland Hill's, [263].
Horsemanship of Johnson the Irishman, [257], [258].
Horsfield, Dr, on the Javanese fox-bat, [45], [46].
Hunter, John, and the dead tiger, [165];
his menagerie at Earl's Court, [300], [302].
Hunters of Polmood, dog that belonged to, [107].
Impey, Warren Hastings, and the ass, [279], [280].
India shawls, [301].
Inglefield, Capt., on the affection of a Polar bear and her two cubs, [65].
Irish clergyman and the dogs, [108].
Irishman on rat-shooting, [203].
Irving, Washington, and the dog, [108], [109].
Ivory dust, [233].
Jackal, [148], [149].
Jeffrey on a donkey; Sydney Smith's lines on [281], [282].
Jekyll treading on a small pig, [251];
on a squirrel, [195].
Jerrold, Douglas, and his dog, [109].
Kangaroo Cooke, [189].
Kangaroos, Charles Lamb on, [188], [189].
Keppel, Commodore, and the Dey of Algiers, [303].
King James, on a cow getting over the Border, [309].
Laird of Balnamoon and the brock, [75].
Lamb, Charles, and the dog, [110];
on Kangaroos, [188], [189];
on the hare, [212].
Landseer's "Monkeyana," [10];
stags, [293].
Lap-dogs before the House of Commons, [124].
Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick, adventures of a monkey in Morayshire, [29], [30].
Laurillard, Cuvier's assistant, [237].
Lawyer's horse, [268].
Lemming, and Arctic voyager, [196];
habits of the Arctic, [197], [198].
Leifchild, Dr, at Hoxton, [127].
Leopard, its ferocity when wounded, [161].
Letter from the gorilla, now in British Museum, [13]-[17].
Lightfoot, name for Sir Edwin Landseer, [293].
Lion and tiger, [166].
Lion, hunts on Assyrian monuments, [162].
Lions on monument of Clement XII., [171]-[173].
Liston the surgeon and his cat, [153], [154].
Livingston, Dr, on paralysing effect of lion's bite, [162].
Luther observes a dog at Lintz, [111].
Lyon, Capt., on Arctic fox, [144], [145].
Lytton, Sir Edward Bulwer, on the pets of some of the Revolutionary butchers, [195], [196].
Macaulay, Lord, on the last days of King William III., [50]-[56].
M'Clintock on Arctic fox, [144].
M'Dougall on habits of Arctic lemming, [197].
Macgillivray, John, on a fox-bat from Fitzroy Island, [45].
Mackenzie, Mrs Colin, on the habits of the apes at Simla, [35], [36];
on the tiger being worshipped, [166].
Man, Professor Owen on his position, [1];
definition of, by Linnæus, [12];
defined in the Linnæan manner, [4].
Mandrill and George IV., [31], [32].
Mansfield's, Lord, joke about a horse, [267].
Marat, the citizen, and his doves, [196].
Markham, Mr Clement, on the Polar bear, [69].
Marsupialia, [188]-[191].
Mastiff and the soldier, [97].
Matthews, Henry, on the Grotta del Cane, [112].
Mayerne, Dr, and his balsam of bats, [47].
Metcalfe, when a boy, on camel, [290].
Miller, Hugh, on badger-baiting in the Canongate, [72]-[74].
Miscellaneous eating about a pig, [238].
Mitchell, D. W., on the habits of a young chimpanzee, [22]-[24].
Mitchell's antipathy to cats, [155].
Model dog of the artist Collins, [96], [97].
Mole, its habits, [49].
Monkey revered by Hindoos, [35].
Monkeys, [9];
liable to lung disease in British islands, [22];
Rev. Sydney Smith on, [34], [35];
poor relations, [34].
Montagu, Duke of, and his hospital for old cows, &c., [309].
Montgomery, James, his translation of a definition of man, [4];
and his cats, [155], [156].
Moore, General, and his horse at Corunna, [268].
Moore on Gilpin and Boatswain, two dogs, [95], [96].
Moore, Dr John, sketch of a French marquis and his monkey, [30], [31].
More, Hannah, on dog of Garrick's, [105].
Moreau and his greyhound, [113].
Moses, a dog of Mrs Schimmelpenninck's, [122].
Moth larvæ eating at night, [37].
Mounsey, anecdote of, [269].
Mouse that amused Baron von Trenck, [209], [210].
Mules should have their own way, [286].
Museum of John Hunter, [164], [165].
Musical cats, [152], [153].
Musk rat, [200].
Myrmecophaga jubata, [225]-[229].
Names given to horses, [270]-[274].
Napier, Charles, and the lion in the Tower, [173].
Natural history collectors of the days of Addison and Steele, [5], [8].
Neill, Dr Patrick, [5].
Nelson and the Polar bear, [67]-[69];
in Arctic seas, [186].
Newfoundland dog, [126].
N'Geena, or gorilla, [18].
Nicol, George, the bookseller and hunter, [165].
Norfolk, Duke of, and his spaniels, [114].
North, Sir Dudley, visits the rhinoceros, [231].
North, Lord, and the dog, [115].
Northcote's Balaam and the Ass, [281].
Norton, Hon. Mrs, address to a dog, [83].
Odell and his old donkey, [277].
Old Jack, a horse that drew stones for building Waterloo Bridge, [270].
Old lady and the beasts on the mound, [173].
Ommaney, Capt., and the Polar bear, [70].
Opossum, [190].
Ornithorhynchus, the duck-bill, [192].
Owen, Professor, on the gorilla, [18];
on the aye-aye, [36].
Parasols, how ladies used them at Cross's menagerie, [33].
Parrot and monkey, anecdote of two pets, [33], [34].
Parry, Capt., on flesh of Polar bear, [66].
Paton, Sir J. Noel, has studied physiognomies of bats, &c., [38].
Peale, Titian, on a tame fox-bat, [44].
Peccaries of South America, [240].
Peel, Capt. Wm., on camel, [287]-[289].
Peracyon, [19].
Perchance, a lap-dog, [96].
Perthes derives hints from his dog, [115].
Peter the Great and his dog Lisette, [161], [117].
Phascolomys vombatus, [193].
Philip IV. in bull-ring, [310].
Phillips, Sir Richard, eats jelly of ivory dust, [233].
Phoca barbata, [180];
vitulena, [177].
Pied Piper of Hamelin, extract from, [199].
Pig, monument to, [239].
Pigs and silver spoons, [254].
Plants liked by hares, [218].
Polar bear, its history, [61]-[70].
Poll-cat, Fox and the, [77].
Polkemmet, Lord, a dinner on veal, [305].
Polson and the last Scottish wolf, [135]-[137].
Ponsonby and the poodle, [118].
Porpoise in Zoological Gardens, [315].
Pope on dogs, [95].
Porcupine ant-eater, [192].
Postman and carrier dog at Moffat, [113].
Postmen, Capt. Osborn, on Arctic foxes as, [146].
Potamochœrus, [240], [245].
Prinny, a pet dog of Collins the artist, [96], [97].
Prison mouse, [209], [210].
Pteropus conspicillatus, [44];
medius, [45].
Puss, a pet hare of the poet Cowper's [214], [215].
Quadrumana, [9]-[38].
Queen of Charles I. and the lap-dog [107].
Quixote Bowles fond of pigs, [251].
Rabbits, a family all blind of one eye, [222].
Raccoon, [71].
Race-horses, Holcroft's anecdotes of, [263]-[265].
Ramsgate donkeys, Irishman on, [278].
Rats and mice, [198].
Rats' whiskers good for artists' brushes, [204].
Ravages of rats, [203].
Raven, pet of Wood the surgeon, [299].
Red-deer at Taymouth, [291], [292].
"Relais," a dog belonging to Louis XII., [111].
Revolutionary butchers and their pets, [195], [196].
Rhinoceros and elephant, [229].
Richardson, Sir J., on Arctic fox, [143].
River pig, [245].
Rodent animals, [195], [212].
Rodney, Lord, and his dog Loup, [119].
Rogue elephant, skull of one, [230].
Roos's etchings of sheep, Goethe on, [296], [297].
Ross, Sir James, on Arctic fox, [142], [145].
Rowan berries, dog that fetched, [128].
Ruddiman and his dog Rascal, [119].
Sand liked by hares, [218].
Schimmelpenninck, Mrs, her fondness for dogs, [121].
Scott, Sir Walter, when a boy, saw Burns, [84];
his fondness for his dogs, [122];
on a fox, [138];
visit to the Black Dwarf, [157].
"Scratcher" of Sydney Smith, [311].
Scriptures, dogs mentioned in the, [84], [103], [106].
Seals, their intelligence, [174]-[182].
Semnopithecus Entellus, an Indian monkey, [35].
Sergent and his spaniel, [196].
Shaved bear at Bristol, [61].
Shawl-goat at John Hunter's menagerie, [301].
Sheep, anecdotes of, [295]-[298];
and goats, [295];
pet, of Alex. Wood the surgeon, [299].
Shepherd dogs, [82].
Sheridan and the dog, [109];
on the dog-tax, [123].
Shetland seals, [174]-[182].
Sidmouth, Lord, educated by the Rev. Mr Gilpin, [308].
Skins of rabbits, [223].
Sloth, Sydney Smith on, [224].
Smith, Rev. Sydney, on the differences between man and monkeys, [34], [35];
his answer to Landseer, [78];
remark on a dog, [88];
his dislike of dogs, [124], [125];
on pigs, [254];
and his horses, [271]-[274].
Smith and the elephant, [234].
Sorrel, the horse of William III., [51].
Southey and his critics, [48];
on dogs, [126];
loved cats, [158]-[160].
Sow and swine, [238]-[255].
Spencer, Lord, and Rev. Sydney Smith, [124], [125].
Spermophilus Parryi, [197].
Sportsmen, exaggeration of some, [221].
Squirrel, [195].
Stags, anecdotes of, [291]-[293].
Stag-trench at Frankfort, [294].
Stanhope, Earl, on Jacobites calling adherents of Court "Hanover rats," [202], [203];
on the poet Cowper's tastes, [220].
Stapelia, a plant at the Cape, [25].
Stirling Castle, "Lion's den" at, [162].
Stokes, Capt. Lort, on the red-necked fox-bat, [43].
Story, Judge, names he gave his horses, [274].
Sturge and the pigs, [255].
Surgeon, an enthusiastic fox-hunting, [138].
Swinton, origin of name, [241].
Sykes, Colonel, on the flesh of a fox-bat, [45].
Syria, wild boar in, [244].
Tail, short-tailed and long-tailed horses, [275].
Tailor and the elephant, [235].
Tamandua, or ant-eater, [226].
Tennyson, lines on man, and modern systems, [10];
lines describing tropical bats, [39].
Thackeray on the Egyptian donkey, [285].
Thalassarctos maritimus—the polar bear, [61]-[70].
Thylacinus Harrisii, [191].
Tibetan mastiff, [86], [87].
Tiger and lion, [161].
Tigers' claws and whiskers regarded as charms, [165].
Tiger-wolf of Tasmania, [190]-[194].
Tiney, a pet hare of Cowper's, [216].
Toplady on future state of animals, [312].
Tonton, Walpole's pet dog, [129], [130].
Trained monkeys, [26].
Trenck and the tame mouse in prison, [209].
Trichechus rosmarus, [183].
True, on dog being a good judge of eloquence, [127].
Ulysses and his dog, [133].
Ursus lotor, why raccoon was so called, [71].
Veal ad nauseam, [304]
Venison fat, [294].
Vulpes lagopus, [142].
Walker, Dr David, on Polar bear, [62].
Wallace, Alfred, on orang-utan, [11];
on great ant-eater, [227].
Walpole, Horace, the young lady's pet monkey and her parrot, [33], [34];
pet dog Rosette, lines on, [129].
Walrus, history of, [182]-[188].
Waterton, Charles, letter from, on young gorilla, [18]-[20];
letter to Mrs Wombwell on her young gorilla, [21];
"Hanover rats," [202].
Watt, James, on rats' whiskers, [204].
Wellington's story of musk rat, [200].
Whalebone, [315].
Whales, [315], [317].
Whateley, Archbishop, and his dogs, [131], [132];
on a cat that rung the bell, [160].
Wild boar, [239]-[245].
Wilkie, Sir David, and the baby, [3], [4];
and the puppy, [133].
William III., his death, as related by Lord Macaulay, [49]-[56].
Wilson, the American ornithologist, and the mouse, [211].
Windham, Right Hon. William, on Capt. Phipps's Arctic expedition, [67], [68];
on the feelings of a baited bull, [313].
Wolf, [135].
Wolf-dog, Hungarian, anecdote of, [102], [103].
Wombat, [193].
Wood, Sandy, and his pets, [298], [299].
Wordsworth on cruelty to horses in Ireland, [275].
Zebra, Lattin's joke, [287].
Zoological Gardens, [249].