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taste that Mr. Cops declares that he has no doubt that 
during her residence in the Tower she has made prey of 
at least as many of these articles as there are days in the 
year. The agility with which she bounds round her 
cell, which is of considerable size, touching at one leap, 
and almost with the velocity of thought, each of its four 
walls, and skimming along the ceiling with the same 
rapidity of action, which is scarcely to be followed by 
the eye, is truly wonderful, and speaks more forcibly of 
the muscular power and flexibility of limb by which 
such extraordinary motions are executed than language 
can express. 
The male, on the contrary, although he has been more 
than twelve months an inmate of the Tower, is still as 
sullen and as savage as on the day of his arrival. Not- 
‘withstanding the kind treatment which has been lavished 
upon him by the keepers, he yet refuses to become 
familiarised with them, and receives all their overtures at 
a nearer acquaintance with such sulky and even angry 
symptoms as plainly evince that it would be dangerous 
to tamper with his unreclaimed and unmanageable dis- 
position. He is, as is usual in all these animals, larger 
than the female, and much richer and more beautiful in 
the style of his marking and depth of his colouring. The 
two animals, however, although differing so greatly in 
temper, agree together tolerably well, excepting only at 
meal times, when their usual harmony is in some measure 
broken in upon by the jealousy with which they regard 
each other’s share of the repast. 
Their food consists of about five pounds of beef per 
day for each: this the keeper generally tosses up in 
front of their den, at the distance of nearly two feet from 
