In a Primeval Forest 



extant in the river valleys, when hippopotami made their 

 home in the Rhine and Main, and elephants and rhinoceroses 

 still flourished. . . . What I saw there before me in the 

 flesh I learnt to see with my mind's eye in the long- 

 forgotten past. It is the duty of any one whose good 

 fortune it has been to witness such scenes of charm and 

 loveliness to endeavour to leave some record of them as 

 best he may, and by whatever means he has at his 

 command. 



A SEA-GULL. 



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