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an English soldier, in which he is said to have de- 

 lighted, are gone likewise. How different Hyder 

 Ally and Tippoo Sultan must have been from the 

 amiable and accomplished old gentleman, Tippoo's 

 last surviving son, who died lately in Calcutta at 

 a ripe old age ! He was well known in England 

 some years ago as Prince Gholam Mahomed, and 

 was much respected by Europeans and natives ia 

 India. 



The geographical distribution of the tiger is very 

 wide. When Buffon stated that it was found, not 

 only in Asia, but also in the South of Africa, he was 

 mistaken, for it is confined entirely to the former 

 country, though the area is a wide one. From 

 Ararat and the Caucasus on the west, it ranges east 

 as far as the Island of Saghalien, but it appears not 

 to ascend to the high tableland of Thibet. -EcQm„ 

 Jla^^C^ormJj^extends__nQrth„JaJIindastan_to.the 

 Himalayas, to the height of j6,.Q-Qi3~ti3-8,000 feet; one 

 was Hiled recently, as reported in the Home News 

 of February 2nd, 1874, at Dalhousie, 8,000 feet 

 above the sea, the first, probably, that has been 

 found so high. 



Humboldt, in his " Central Asia," speaks of the 

 tiger being found in Ceylon, but evidently he is 

 mistaken. It is neither met with in that island nor 

 in Borneo, notwithstanding that, with reference to 

 the latter island, we find the following passage in 

 Mr. St. John's work -.—'^ At one place two rocks 



