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coast. It is” as Mr. Selby has observed,, a remarkable instance 
of the laws which direct the migrations of birds^ and confine them 
within certain limits In that country^ where storks are such 
general favourites, and meet with the utmost protection, our 
soldiers — as I have heard from an artillery-man who was with the 
British army in reducing the frontier towns after the battle of 
Waterloo — got into great disgrace with the people by wantonly 
shooting their favourite birds. These may indeed be occasionally 
seen walking the streets with as much confidence as any burgo- 
master. 
As the eagle is mentally associated with the most sublime scenes 
in nature, so, to the traveller at least, is the stork with the ruins 
of maAs noblest works. Amid the desolation of his fallen cities 
throughout the fairer parts of Europe and the classic portion of 
Asia, we are sure to meet with them surmounting his temples, his 
theatres, or baths. But of all the appropriate localities in which 
the stork has met my eye, none — considering the filial reputation 
of the bird — struck me to be so peculiarly happy as the column 
dedicated to Julia Alpinula at Avouches ; its summit being chosen 
by a pair for their nest in the summer of 1826. The allusion of 
Byron to this column, in the 3rd Canto of Childe Harold, will be 
remembered — 
“ By a lone wall a lonelier column rears 
A grey and grief-wom aspect of old days ; 
’Tis the last remnant of the wreck of years ; 
And looks as with the wild-hewilder’d gaze 
Of one to stone converted hy amaze, 
Yet still with consciousness ; and there it stands 
Making a marvel that it not decays, ' 
When the coeval pride of human hands 
LeveU’d Aventicum,* hath strewed her subject lands. 
And there — oh ! sweet and sacred he the name ! — • 
Julia — the daughter, the devoted — gave 
Her youth to Heaven ; her heart, beneath a claim 
Nearest to Heaven’s, broke o’er a father’s grave. 
* Aventicum, near Morat, was the Roman capital of Helvetia, where Avenches 
now stands. 
