736 THE UNIVERSE. 



sters, in which are delineated some of the most fantastic 

 kind. Ambrose Pare*, surgeon to Henry III. of France, 

 though he had long travelled with the army, was no less 



265. Dragon of the Caverns of Mount Pilatus. Facsimile taken from the "Mundus 

 Subterraneus " of the Reverend Father Kircher. 



credulous than the others. In his celebrated work he rep- 

 resents sirens, monks, and men-at-arms of the sea all cov- 

 ered with scales, and as fresh as if they had been just 

 withdrawn from the gulfs of Neptune. One asks with as- 



