*** We thank our intelligent correspondent for this communication, as well as for the skin and fur. The skin is rather above the usual size: its length is 26 inches, the tail being cut off; as is always done before the skins are exported: the width of the skin is 15 inches; the teats, nine in number, are in two rows, each row being about 2-1/2 inches from the centre of the back, and about 5 inches from the centre of the belly; so that they are, as our correspondent observes, on the side, approaching to the back nearer by half than to the belly. This position of the teats appears to correspond with the animal's habit of suckling its young whilst swimming.
THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
THE CHOLERA MOUNT.
Lines on the Burying-Place for Patients who have Died of Cholera; a pleasant eminence in Sheffield Park.
By James Montgomery, Esq.
In death divided from their dearest kin,
This is "a field to bury strangers in:"
Fragments lie here of families bereft,