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and directs all of the same species to work after the same model? 

 It cannot be imitation; for though you hatch a crow under a hen, 

 and never let it see any of the works of its own kind, the nest it 

 makes shall be the same, to the laying of a stick, with all the 

 other nests of the same species. It cannot he reason; for were 

 animals endued with it to as great a degree as man, their buildings 

 would be as different as ours, according to the different conve- 

 niences that they would propose to themselves. Animals in their 

 generation are wiser than the children of men; but their wisdom 

 is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. 

 Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived 

 of understanding/' 



Few situations afford more variety than the forests of Tur- 

 caseer; I only laid aside my pencil to traverse those solitary wilds, 

 and procure new subjects, while my attentive friends brought 

 every thing curious from their distant excursions. One of our 

 keenest sportsmen left the party for a few days, with some expert 

 Indian marksmen, to explore the Raje-pipley hills, and shoot on 

 Bhaug-Doongur, the " Tiger-mountain," a spot abounding with tigers, 

 leopards, hyenas, and wild beasts of various description. There, 

 for the first time, he saw the mountain-goat (capra ibex Lin.) an 

 animal resembling the steinbock, or bouquetin of Switzerland. In 

 a narrow defile, where they were stationed for the destruction of 

 tigers, a male elk, (cervus alces, Lin.) of noble appearance, fol- 

 lowed by twenty-two females, passed majestically under their plat- 

 form, each as large as a common-sized horse. They shot one, but 

 being obliged to leave it, in pursuit of royal game, on their re- 



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