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in places widely distant, that we do not see how the 

 fact can he denied. 



Bishop Heher, in his travels in India, passed 

 through a mountainous district, where sad complaints 

 were made of their carrying off infant children; and 

 we remember some years ago, in the Alps, that on 

 a high-pointed pinnacle of inaccessible rock, jutting 

 out from a peak of snow, near the summit of the Jung 

 Frau, one of the highest of the Alpine range of moun- 

 tains, there might be seen the tattered remains of 

 the clothing of a poor child, who had been carried 

 up by a Laommergeyer, or Bearded Vulture, from a 

 yalley below, in spite of the shouts of some peasants 

 who saw the bird pounce upon its prize. It is called 

 the Bearded Vulture from the tuft of bristles on each 

 cheek, as represented in the annexed figure. 



A more fortunate fate awaited a child in the Isle 

 of Skye in Scotland, where a woman having left it 

 in the field for a short time, an Eagle carried it off 

 in its talons across a lake, and there deposited its 

 burden; some people herding sheep perceived it, and 

 hearing the infant cry, hurried to the spot, and found 

 it uninjured. The name of the child was Niel, but 

 he was afterwards distinguished and called by a 

 Gaelic world, signifying Eagle. In Sweden, a deplor- 



