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That they possess some powers of delibera- 

 tion, appears evident from the artifices which 

 they employ to escape from the nets in which 

 they have been enclosed, or from the hook 

 which they have incautiously swallowed. Sal- 

 mon have been known to lie close on the ground 

 in some hollow place, to permit the net to pass 

 over them, or by a sudden spring to leap out 

 of the net. The Fishing-Frog, or Angler, as it 

 is also called, (Lophis piscatorius,) has two 

 long tentaculae on the head, resembling in ap- 

 pearance small worms. Having buried its 

 body in the sand, leaving only these tentaculae 

 exposed, it moves them backwards and for-j 

 wards, until the eye of some young fish is 

 attracted by the deceitful appearance, and falls 

 a prey to its lurking foe. 



TOWN IN A SALT MINE, AT CRACOW, IN 

 POLAND. 



There is a town in the immense Salt Mines of 

 Cracow, in Poland, within which is a spacious 

 market-place, a river of fresh water, a neat 

 church, and a famous statue of Lot's wife, cut 

 out of a solid block of rock-salt, by the moist 



