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LIFE, IN ITS HIGHER FORMS. 
In the first place, the head is enormous, and, being three- 
sided, with projecting points and angles, makes a suffi- 
ciently uncouth visage; but the eyes which illuminate 
this notable head-piece must, indeed, to borrow for the 
nonce the phraseology of Barnum, “ be seen to be appre- 
ciated.” There is on each side an immense eye-ball, full 
and prominent, but covered with the common shagreened 
skin of the head, except at the very centre, where there 
is a minute aperture, corresponding to the pupil. These 
great punctured eye-balls roll about hither and thither, 
but with no symmetry. You cannot tell whether the 
creature is looking at you or not; he seems to be taking 
what may be called a general view of things; — looking at 
nothing in particular, or rather, to save time, looking at 
several things at once. Perhaps both oyes are gazing 
upwards at your face ; a leaf quivers behind his head, and 
in a moment one eye turns round toward the object, while 
the other retains its upward gaze : presently a fly appears ; 
one eye rapidly and interestedly follows all its movements, 
while the other leisurely glances hither and thither, or re- 
mains steady. Accustomed as we are to soe in almost all 
animals the two oyes move in unison, this want of sym- 
pathy produces an effect most singular and even ludicrous. 
The Lizards arc not in all cases the little, leaping, timid 
playful creatures that we commonly associate with the 
name. The aquatic Monitors ( Varanidw ) of both con- 
tinents are truly formidable. M. Leschenault de Latour 
saw one attack a young stag as it attempted to swim 
across a river, striving hard to drown it. The deer was 
too active on this occasion, but the same zoologist found 
the thigh-bone of a sheep in the stomach of ono that he 
