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THE EAGLE, 
places widely distant, that we do not see how the 
fact can he denied. 
Bishop Heber ; in his travels in India, passed 
through a mountainous district, where sad complaints 
were made of their carrying off infant children; and 
we remember some years ago, in the Alps, that on 
a high-pointed pinnacle of inaccessible rock, jutting 
out from a peak of snow, near the summit of the Jung 
Frau, one of the highest of the Alpine range of moun- 
tains, there might he seen the tattered remains of 
the clothing of a poor child, who had been carried 
up by a Leemmergeyer, or Bearded Vulture, from a 
valley below, in spite of the shouts of some peasants 
wdio saw the bird pounce upon its prize. It is called 
the Bearded Vulture from the tuft of bristles on each 
cheek, as represented in the annexed figure. 
A more fortunate fate awaited a child in the Isle 
of Skye in Scotland, where a woman having left it 
in the field for a short time, an Eagle carried it off* 
in its talons across a lake, and there deposited its 
burden ; some people herding sheep perceived it, and 
hearing the infant cry, hurried to the spot, and found 
it uninjured. The name of the child was Niel, hut 
lie was afterwards distinguished and called by a 
Gaelic word, signifying Eagle. In Sweden, a deplor- 
