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the volume thus purposed to be published, is intended to 
have its pages occupied and filled up. 
The Work is particularly recommended to the atten- 
tion of the Ladies. They are the fairest and most benign 
part of the creation ; they impart the first instru€tions to 
the youthful mind, and therefore ought to have their 
mind and understanding replete with every species of 
useful knowledge; and they possess, in general, more 
leisure moments to prosecute the now fashionable studies 
of Natural History and Botany than the other sex, who 
are too much engrossed by business abroad to allow their 
time to be otherwise diverted than that in which their 
minds never fail to be engaged. “‘ O czves, ctves, guzrenda 
pecunia primum est.” 
Save for the stilted verbosity of this notice there is 
not much to criticise, but some one evidently thought it 
a fit subjeét for a jest, as may be seen from the following, 
which was inserted in the next issue of the same paper 
(June 12th) :— 
“In the press, and speedily will be published, the 
Keekarra Kaakarra or Wonders of the Woods ; compiled 
during last and part of the present Century by DUGALD 
DALGETTY, Esquire, of the Marischal College, Aberdeen.” 
These Serpents, hideous to the minds of men, 
That crawl and fatten in the sedgy fen; 
Each prowling Tiger that infests the glade, 
And scowling crouches in his ambuscade ; 
The Fowls of air—and Finny tribes of sea— 
Each lowly Shrub, and ev’ry towering Tree 
Portray’d, to nature, in my fertile page 
Shall stand the wonder of each coming age ;— 
Delight the wise—the ignorant inform— 
And more than mortal make this Mortal Worm ! 
P,P. S. S. 
