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ever, was withdrawn from its envelope of cotton-wool, 

 it was very pale; but the animal seemed weak. 



Some winters ago, we saw a living chameleon, for the 

 first time, in Exeter 'Change menagerie. It was sickly, 

 and no experiments could be made upon it. In the 

 month of July, 1824, we had, however, this oppor- 

 tunity, on a fine healthy chameleon, brought to Hull 

 by the captain of a ship, from Sierra Leone, on the 

 coast of Africa. It is not our intention to enter upon 

 a particular description of its exterior appearance, it 

 being sufficiently well known from the numerous spe- 

 cimens in the various cabinets of Europe, as well as 

 those in private collections. The eyes are singularly 

 constructed, and merit a passing notice ; each one 

 being a rich and brilliant gem, set in a ring of gold, 

 and enchased in a spherical socket ; being adorned on 

 the superficies with radii uniting in this beautiful point 

 of vision. Each ball performs its revolution entirely 

 independent of its counterpart, and even when one 

 eye shuts, the other remains the watchful sentinel : 

 the globe, under such conditions, seems absorbed, and 

 its convexity discovers a depression. The eye appears 

 remarkably intelligent and acute, and it seemed to 

 contemplate the ball of the thermometer, during the 

 progress of the experiments, with a curious interest, 

 We have merely singled out the organ of vision, as not 

 the least interesting feature of this elaborate structure, 

 in which such exquisite design is every where mani- 

 fest. The pace of the chameleon is slow and mea- 

 sured ; the vertebral column is dentated, and the skin 

 is rugose or wrinkled : its food is derived from the 

 insect world, and coleopterous and other insects are 

 discovered in its egesta. When a fly settles near,. it 

 moves with extreme caution to a convenient distance 

 and position, and, darting its tongue, imbued with viscid 



