34- GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL. 



to my wondering eyes by the monster telescope 

 under circumstances too which were unusually 

 propitious for such observations. Of the stars or 

 nebulae I will say nothing ; and of the queen of 

 night herself I will merely remark, that I ascer- 

 tained to my perfect satisfaction in spite of 

 Milton and Galileo to boot that there were 

 neither seas, lakes, rivers, woods, nor forests ' on 

 her spotty globe,' and that whatever may be 

 the ordinary occupations or the favourite diver- 

 sions of ' the man in the moon,' he is at any rate 

 neither a fisherman nor an ornithologist. 



