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first volume. It was near Whit-week, and wishing to avoid disap- 
pointment, sent the photograph to London to be engraved. With 
the result we were not pleased, and therefore sent another copy of 
the photograph to a local engraver, who produced cut Fig. 21. 
Neither of these are absolutely correct, as our readers will see; 
Fig. 20. Fig. 21. 
there has been too much touching up done, and the picture is more 
artistic than real, while in Fig. 20 the engraver has not caught the 
idea from the photograph; the illustration appears to represent 
more nearly a white feather lying upon a black ground than an 
opening surrounded by small featherets, which the engraver has 
exaggerated in Fig. 21. We hope in a short time to give another 
