And outrag'd heaven, vengeance take;
That he,[3] whose prowess has been scann'd,
Will save the minstrel's Fatherland.

H.

[3] Blucher.

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THE NATURALIST.


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ERRORS IN NATURAL HISTORY.

(_From Chit-chat, in the Magazine of Natural History, by Dovaston and
Von Osdat._)


_Dov._ Ray tells a humourous story, that, after the patiently exploring
commissioners, at the end of their long examinations, deliberately
confessed their utter ignorance to account for the Goodwin Sands, an old
man gravely asserted Tenterden steeple to be the cause.

_Von Os._ Tenterden steeple!