338 ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES. 
windings of the rocks. When he was tolerably near the Great Saléve 
he halted, and two eaglets, which he had carried on his back, at- 
tempted to fly, at first very close to their teacher, and in narrow 
circles; then, a few minutes afterwards, feeling fatigued, they 
returned to rest upon his back. Gradually their essays were pro- 
tracted, and at the close of the lesson the eaglets effected some much 
more important flights, still under the eyes of their teacher of gym- 
nastics. After about an hour’s occupation the two scholars resumed 
their post on the paternal back, and the eagle returned to the rock 
from which he had started.” (M. Chenvieres, of Geneva.) 
Page 304. The small Chili fulcon (cernicula).—I extract this 
statement from a new, curious, but little known work, written in 
French by a Chilian: Le Chili, by B. Vicuna Mackenna (ed. 1855, 
p. 100). Chili I take to be a most interesting country, which, by 
the energy of its citizens, should considerably modify the unfavour- 
able opinion entertained by the citizens of the United States in 
reference to South Americans. America will not exist asa world, so 
long as a common feeling shall be wanting between the two opposite 
poles which ought to create her majestic harmony. 
Final Note on the Winged Life.—To appreciate beings so alien 
