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friend. All birds, we know, have an instinctive 

 faculty of finding their way, when on the wing, to 

 certain spots they have been accustomed to frequent, 

 in which it might be supposed that eye-sight, from 

 high elevation, might materially assist them; but, in 

 the following case, it will be seen that the inhabitants 

 of the air are not in all cases indebted to this sense for 

 discovering their former abodes, but can, like dogs 

 and various other quadrupeds, and even turtles, as 

 we have before remarked, find their way by some 

 unknown faculty, to places from which they have 

 been removed. About five years ago, a gentleman, 

 near Chapel-le -Frith, in Derbyshire, took a young 

 Raven from its nest, and kept it in an out-building 

 for a few months ; its wings was then clipped, and it 

 was allowed to go at large. It soon became well 

 known for a mile round, regularly visiting every farm- 

 house within that distance whenever a pig was killed, 

 when it was always rewarded with some tit-bits. 

 Soon after the death of its owner, about three years 

 ago, the Raven was given to a surgeon, resident in 

 Stockport. Cheshire, who kept it chained by the leg 

 for about twelve months; he then gave it its liberty, 

 and, as before, it wandered about near home, but 

 not with the same success, for its thigh was one day 

 broken by some idle, thoughtless boys, who threw 

 stones at it. The fracture was reduced, the Raven 

 recovered, and then again took to rambling about 

 for a few weeks, when it disappeared altogether, and 

 was supposed to have met with an untimely end; 

 when, about a fortnight after it had been missed, 

 the news arrived of its safe return to its old 

 residence at Chapel-le-Frith, distant fourteen miles, 



