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sess three heads, those of a lion, a goat, and a dragon. 

 It used so to be pictorially treated, but in more modern 

 times as Aldrovandus represents. The mountain Chi- 

 titcera, now called Yanar, is in ancient Lycia, in Asia 

 Minor, and was a burning mountain, which, according to 

 Spratt, is caused by a stream of inflammable gas, issuing 

 from a crevice. This monster is easily explained, if 

 we can believe Servius, the Commentator of Virgil, who 

 says that flames issue from the top of the mountain, 

 and that there are lions in the vicinity ; the middle part 

 abounds in goats, and the lower part with serpents. 



THE HARPY AND SIREN. 



The conjunction of the human form with birds is very 

 easy, wings being fitted to it, as in the case of angels and 



