THE DODO. 



Dodo. 



The Dodo, a singular bird, which is supposed to be extinct, was discovered by the Mauritius by the 

 .artier voyagers, t or many years their accounts of it were supposed to be mere flights of fancy. Lately 

 lowever, the discovery of several relics of this bird in various countries has set the question at rest. Not 

 J3trich qa ° P1 '° Per P ° sUion of the bird - Some think {t belon S s to the Pigeons, and some to the 



From the travels of Sir T. Hubert, written in the year 1627, we take the following account. " The Dodo, 

 a bird the Dutch call Walghvogel, or Dod Eersen ; her body is round and fat, which occasions the slovv 

 pace or that her corpuleneie, and so great as few of them weigh less than fifty pound : meat it is with some, 

 but better to the eye than stomach, such as only a strong appetite can vanquish*It is a melancholy visage 

 as sensible of nature s injury in framing so massie a body to be directed by complements wings, such in- 

 deed, as are unable to hoist her from the ground, serving only to rank her anion- birds." 



Sending away the Carrier Dove. 



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PhcH^nnt. 



