262 HOLY HOOD TIDE. 



SEPT. 18. St. Thomas of Villanosa, bishop and 

 confessor, a.d. 1555. 

 St. Methodius, bishop of Tyre, 311. 

 St. Ferreol, martyr, 304. 

 St. Joseph of Cupertino, confessor, 1663. 

 St. Sophia. — Flemish Cal. 



Obs. St. 'i'homas, the glory of the church of Spain, was born in 

 1488. He took the habit among the hermits of St, Austin at Sala- 

 manca in 1518 ; he was professed to priestly orders in 1520; he was 

 ordained Bishop of Valencia, and took possession of his cathedral in 

 1545. He discharged all the duties of a good pastor, and preached 

 with so much zeal and affection, that the words which came* from his 

 mouth seemed so many flashes of lightning or claps of thunder. This 

 blessed man, having been forewarned by a vision that he should die 

 on the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, was taken ill of a 

 quinsy, and rendered his soul into the hands of God in the sixty 

 seventh year of his a^e, of our Lord 1555. 



St. Ferreol's Day is a great feast in France, and causes a pompous 

 procession at iMarseilles, of virgins habited as nuns, and others as 

 Soeurs de la Charite, besides innumerable tradesmen and others, 

 headed by the priests. 



Pendulous Starwort Aster pendulinus full fl. 

 Wild Goose Anses Cinereus migr. 

 "Wild Duck Amis Boschas mig-r. 



The misration and short flichts of the Wild Ducks and Wild Geese now be- 

 sin to take place in a southern direction ; the more nuir.erons migration of 

 them do not take place till November. Those who desire to examine the ha- 

 bits of these birds should now go to the fens of Cambridgeshire and Lincoln- 

 shire, and wait there till Chiistnias, wheu the migration will be over. About 

 this time of year, too, numerous Water Fowls begin to visit our coasts ; the Bass 

 Rocks, the Fern Islands, and other northern haunts of these sea birds, begin 

 now to receive an addition to their usual inhabitants, the Kazorbills andAucKS, 

 in a numerous tribe from rcL'ions still further northward : 



Or where the northern ocean in vast whirls 



Boils lound ihe nake I melancholy isles 



Of farthtst Thult', and th' Ailantfc surge 



Pours in among the stormy Hetirides ; 



Who can lecouiit what transmigrations there 



Are annual made* What nations come and go ? 



And how the living clouds on clouds arise ? 



Jntitiite wings, till fill the plume dark air 



And rude resounding shore are oue wild cry. 



The boisterous seas tliat the ornithologist has to encounter, when in pursuit 

 of his object in the northern seas in autumn, reminds us to suggest the pos- 

 sibility of using Franklin's method of procuring a temporary cairn by stilling 

 the oeean with oil. Dr. Franklin sugsjests the pouring of oil on the sea to still 

 the waves in a storm, but before he lived Martin wrote an "Account of the 

 Westein Islands of Scotland," wherein he says, " The steward of Kildri, who 

 lives in Pabbay, is accustomed in time of a storm to tie a Uundle of puddings, 

 made of the fat of seafowl. to the end of his cable, and lets it fall iuto the sea 

 behind the rudder; this, he says, hinders the waves from breaking, and calms 

 the sea; but the scent of the grease attracts the Whales, which put the vessel 

 in danger." 



