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reason, bowed down their heads with all the marks of 

 profound humility and devotion, moving their bodies up 

 and down with a kind of fondness, as approving what 

 had been spoken by the holy father. The legend adds, 

 that after many heretics, who were present at the miracle 

 had been converted by it, the saint gave his benediction to 

 the fish, and dismissed^them. 



The fine picture of St. Anthony of Padua, preaching 

 to the fish is by Salvator Eosa, and is in the collection 

 at Althorp House, Northamptonshire. Lady Morgan 

 describes a picture in the Borghese Palace at Borne, 

 which represents St. Anthony delivering his sermon.. Her 

 ladyship says, " The salmon look at the preacher with an 

 edified face, and a cod, with his upturned eyes, seems 

 anxiously looking for the new light." 



But Catholic writers have not been the only ones who 

 have descanted on the subject of Jonah's adventure into 

 the whale. We find Protestant writers treating of the 

 same theme, and after a very odd and whimsical manner 

 too. About two hundred years ago, the Rev. Zachary 

 Boyd, a very pious divine of Glasgow, left all his property 

 and manuscripts to the University of that city. These 

 manuscripts consisted of poetical paraphrases, on various 

 topics of bible history. Among the number is the ac- 

 count of Jonah's adventure. The reverend divine here 

 allows his imagination full swing ; and scarcely anything 

 can exceed the whimsical grotesqueness with which he 



