APPENDICES. 



APPENDIX A, PAGE 19. 



Plutarch records of Sylla, who preceded Ovid 

 by about half a century, that on his return from the 

 Mithridatic war, as he was passing the Oracle called 

 " Nymphceum," near Apollonia, there was brought 

 before him a Satyr, which had been taken asleep, 

 " exactly such as statuaries and painters represent 

 to us." When Sylla questioned him in many lan- 

 guages who and what he was, "he could utter 

 nothing intelligible ; his accent being harsh and in- 

 articulate, something between the neighing of a 

 horse and the bleating of a goat. Sylla was 

 shocked at his appearance, and ordered him to quit 

 his presence." From which we may conclude that 

 "Satyrs," the creation of the ancient poets, were 

 something like the missing link between man and 

 beast, according to the Darwinian theory ! 



APPENDIX B, PAGE 29. 



Max Miiller's Science of Language, 177, 8; 5th edi- 

 tion. In the 8th edition of the same work, Max Miiller 

 wisely observed that "Lord Monboddo admits that 

 as yet no animal has been discovered in the possession 



