APPENDIX 
OF 
FABULOUS ANIMALS. 
Our object in the previous pages has been to combine 
interest with amusement, and to present truth unmixed 
with fable. Yet considering that some fictitious animals 
are conventionally recognised in poetry and painting, we 
have thought it desirable to subjoin an account of them. 
The Sphinx, the Dragon, the Unicorn, Pegasus, and the 
Centaur, are so familiar to us, both in sculpture and fable, 
that some notice of these mythological creations seems 
indispensable. 
THE SPHINX. 
Providence has ordered, that as the plains of Egypt are 
not visited by showers, they should be fertilized by the 
overflowing of the Nile, which takes place annually, 
