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From the following lines of Oppian, the rambling spirit of eels seems to have been known to the ancients—
The wandering eel,
Oft to the neighbouring beach will silent steal"
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I have been informed, upon the authority of a nobleman well known for his attachment to field sports, that, if an eel is found on land, its head is invariably turned towards the sea, for which it is always observed to make in the most direct line possible. If this information is correct (and there seems to be no reason to doubt it.) it shows that the eel, like the swallow, is possessed of a strong migratory instinct. May we not suppose that the swallow, like the eel, performs its migrations in the same undeviating course?
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See MIRROR, vol. xii. p. 253.
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ERRATA in one of our correspondent's "Legal Rhymes"—the Grant of Edward the Confessor:
for "six beaches," read "six braches."
for "book ycleped," read "bock ylered."
for "token" read "teken."
for "Hamelyn" read "Howelin."Corrected from Blount's Tenures, p. 665, ed. 1815.
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