THE BENGAL LION. 
Fewits LEo. Lyn. Var. BENGALENSIS. 
First in majesty as in might, the monarch of the brute 
creation asserts an undisputed claim to occupy the 
foremost place in our delineation of the inhabitants of 
this Royal Menagerie. Who is there to whom his stately 
mien, his unequalled strength, his tremendous powers 
of destruction, combined with the ideas generally enter- 
tained of his dauntless courage, his grateful affection, 
and his merciful forbearance, are not familiar “‘ as house- 
hold words?” When we speak of a Lion, we call up to 
our imaginations the splendid picture of might unmin- 
gled with ferocity, of courage undebased by guile, of 
dignity tempered with grace and ennobled by generosity ; 
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