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CAPON1SING FOWLS. 



the " Cook's Oracle." One thing, however, may be 

 harmlessly resuscitated. As 



: the toad, ugly and venomous, 



Wears yet a preciousl jewel in his head," 



so the capon, which, though ugly, is not half veno- 

 mous enough, if we can be made to believe all we 

 read, carries a valuable gem in the part that is usually 

 antithetically opposed to the head. 



EXTRACTING A CRYSTAL FROM A CAPON 7 S LIVER. 



From a very curious and ancient work on natural 

 history, in my possession, entitled " Ortus Sanitatis," 

 (the garden of health,) printed and published at Aus- 

 burg, in 1485, by Joan. Cuba, a Dutch botanist, 

 who travelled through Greece and the East, I give 

 above, a fac-simiie of a wood engraving, representing 



