238 GENERAL ANECDOTES CONNECTED 



lofty mountains, provided with abundance of ma- 

 rine plants, where the watery nations rest securely 

 during the most tempestuous seasons, waiting till 

 the return of spring invites them to their summer 

 haunts. Miss Roberts' s Sea-side Companion. 



Similitude between Fish and Birds. The fish 

 may be said to fly in the water, and the bird to 

 swim in the air ; but perhaps the movements of 

 the aquatic animal, from its greater flexibility, are 

 more graceful and elegant than those of the aerial. 

 The feathers of the one are analogous to the 

 scales of the other, the wings to the pectoral fins, 

 and the tail acts to both the part of a rudder. 



Rev. W. Kirby. 



Smell in Fish. La Cepidd says that the srnell 

 of fish is the most acute of all the senses, and it 

 may be called the real eye of the fish, since by it 

 they can discover their prey or their enemies at an 

 immense distance ; they are directed by it in the 

 thickest darkness, and the most agitated waves 

 the organs of this sense are between the eyes. 



Sea Gulls caught with a Hook. Col. Mac- 

 donald, of Powderhall, near Glenshee, fishing for 

 trout, in a boat, caught a score of sea gulls with 

 his tackle. 



