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and, in her retreat, they wounded the dam, but not 

 mortally. It would have drawn tears of pity from any 

 but unfeeling minds, to have marked the affectionate 

 concern exprefsed by this poor beast in the dying mo- 

 ments of her expiring young. Though fhe was sore- 

 ly wounded herself, and could but just crawl to the 

 place where they lay, fhe carried the lumps of flefli 

 file had fetched away, as (he had done others before; tore 

 it in pieces, and laid it down before them. When fhe 

 saw they refused to eat it, fhe laid her paws first upon 

 one, and then upon the other, and endeavoured to 

 raise them up ; all this while it was pitiful to hear her 

 moan. When (he found fhe could not stir them, flie 

 went off, and when fhe had got at some distance, flie 

 looked back and moaned ; that not availing to entice 

 them, file returned, and, smelling round them, be- 

 gan to lick their wounds. She went off a second time, 

 as before, and having crawled a few paces, looked 

 again behind her, and for some time stood moaning. 

 But still her cubs not rising to follow her, she returned 

 to them again, and with signs of inexprefsible tender- 

 nefs,went round one, andround the other, pawing them 

 and moaning. Finding at last they v/ere cold and life- 

 lefs, flie raised l.er head towards the fliip, and growled a 

 curse upon the murderers, which they returned with a 

 volley of mufket-bails. She fell between her cubs, 

 and died licking theii wounds. 



I am afraid, Sir, of tiring you with a long paper. 

 The subject is by no means exhausted, and if you will 

 give me permifsion I ■ fliall send a continuation of 

 this paper, in hopes that it may induce some of 

 your better-informed correspondents to elucidate some 



