Here we see that some of the tricks and dexterities of Mazurier and Gouffe were performed centuries ago; and here, too, we have an illustration that the horizontal bars of our correspondent, the “Parallel Barrister,” though novelties now, were known before our grandfathers were grandchildren. The print from whence [this] is copied, is from sir Mark Sykes’s collection: it is produced here as a curiosity.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 54·74.
[180] The information relative to the exercise so crudely conveyed throughout this hasty letter, is derived from observation of the gymnasium in the New Road, under the excellent management of professor Voelker.
May 12.
The Month.
Hail, May! lovely May! how replenished my pails!
The young dawn o’erspreads the broad east, streaked with gold!
My glad heart beats time to the laugh of the vales,
And Colin’s voice rings through the wood from the fold.
The wood to the mountain submissively bends,
Whose blue misty summit first glows with the sun!
See! thence a gay train by the wild rill descends
To join the mixed sports:—Hark! the tumult’s begun.