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bare of trees, and though there are some 

 gardens immediately around the city, yet as 

 both these and the city itself lie in a small 

 hollow on the banks of the river 3foola, they 

 are not sufficiently conspicuous to intercept the 

 general character of nakedness in the picture, 

 any more than the young fir-trees and shrubs 

 with which the bungalows of the encampment 

 are intermingled. The principal and most 

 pleasing feature is a small insulated hill imme- 

 diately over the town, with a temple of the 

 goddess Parvati on its summit, and a large tank 

 (which, when I saw it, was nearly dry) at its 

 base. All the grass land round this tank, and 

 generally through the Deccan, swarms with a 

 small land-crab, which burrows in the ground, 

 and runs with considerable swiftness, e**B 

 when encumbered with a bundle of food almost 

 as big as itself. This food is grass, or the green 

 stalks of rice, and it is amusing to see them 

 sitting, as it were, upright to eat their hay with 

 their sharp pincers, then waddling oft' with 

 their sheaf to their holes as quickly as their 

 sidelong pace will carry them." 



With these illustrations of our subject we 

 conclude. 



Some one, however, may say — Among all 

 the migratory animals to which you have 

 adverted, do you not include man, who has 

 spread his race over the whole of the habitable 

 globe? We answer — No. Migration in the 

 lower animals is the result of an instinctive 

 impulse which they cannot but obey. In the 



