APPENDIX 



OF 



FABULOUS ANIMALS. 



OUR OBJECT in the previous pages has been to combine 

 interest with amusement, and to present truth unmixed 

 with fable. Yet considering that some fictitious animals 

 are conventionally recognised in poetry and painting, we 

 have thought it desirable to subjoin an account of them. 

 The Sphinx, the Dragon, the Unicorn, Pegasus, and the 

 Centaur, are so familiar to us, both in sculpture and fable, 

 that some notice of these mythological creations seems 

 indispensable. 



THE SPHINX. 



PROVIDENCE has ordered, that as the plains of Egypt aie 

 not visited by showers, they should be fertilized by the 

 overflowing of the Nile, which takes place annually, 



