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windings of the rocks. When he was tolerably near the Great Saleve 

 he halted, and two eaglets, which he had carried on his back, at- 

 tempted to fly, at first very close to their teacher, and in narrow 

 circles ; then, a few minutes afterwards, feeling fatigued, they 

 returned to rest upon his back. Gradually their essays were pro- 

 tracted, and at the close of the lesson the eaglets effected some much 

 more impoiiant flights, still under the eyes of their teacher of gym- 

 nastics. After about an hour's occupation the two scholars resumed 

 their post on the paternal back, and the eagle returned to the rock 

 from which he had started." (M. Chenvieres, of Geneva.) 



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Page 304. The small Chili falcon (cemicula).— I extract this 

 statement from a new, curious, but little known work, written in 

 French by a Chilian: Le Chili, by B. Vicuna Mackenna (ed. 1855, 

 p. 100). Chili I take to be a most interesting country, which, by 

 the energy of its citizens, should considerablj'" modify the unfavour- 

 able opinion entertained by the citizens of the United States in 

 reference to South Americans. America will not exist as a world, so 

 long as a common feeling shall be wanting between the two opposite 

 poles which ought to create her majestic harmony. 



Final Note on the Winged Life. — To appreciate beings so alien 



