THE DODO. 



Dodo. 



The Dodo, a singular bird, which is supposed to be extinct, was discovered by the Mauritius by the 

 earlier voyagers. For many years their accounts of it were supposed to be mere flights of fancy. Lately, 

 however, the discovery of several relics of this bird in various countries has set the question at rest. Not 

 so the question of the proper position of the bird. Some think it belongs to the pigeons, and some to the 

 ostriches. 



From the travels of Sir T. Hubert, written in the year 1G27, we take the following account. " The Dodo, 

 a bird the Dutch call Walghvogel, or Dod Eersen; her body is round aid fat, which occasions the slow 

 pace, or that her corpulencie, and so great as few of them weigh less than fifty pound : meat it is with some, 

 but better to the eye than stomach, such as only a strong appetite can vanquish. It, is a melancholy visage 

 as sensible of nature's injury in framing so massie a body to be directed by complemental wings, such in- 

 deed, as are unable to hoist her from the ground, serving only to rank her among birds." 





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