within the last
fourteen years we have passed many delightful days beneath their
shade.  Many a time and often in our rambles have we met the
venerated Sir Samuel Romilly in one of the most beautiful ridges
of the park, called the Deer-leap, wooing Nature in her
delightful solitudes of wood and glade.  He resided at Leith
Hill, and the distance thence to Wotton is but a short ride.

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KITCHINERIANA.

(From the Housekeeper’s Oracle, by the late Dr. Kitchiner.)

The Greek commanders at the siege of Troy, and who were likewise all royal sovereigns, never presumed to set before their guests any food but that cooked by their own hands.  Achilles was famous for—­broiling beefsteaks.

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Instead of “Do let me send you some more of this mock turtle”—­“Another patty”—­“Sir, some of this trifle,” “I must insist upon your trying this nice melon;”

The language of hospitality should rather run thus:—­“Shall I send you a fit of the cholic, Sir?”

“Pray let me have the pleasure of giving you a pain in your stomach.”

“Sir, let me help you to a little gentle bilious head-ache.”

“Ma’am, you surely cannot refuse a touch of inflammation in the bowels.”

  If you feed on rich sauces, drink deep of strong wine,
  In the morn go to bed, and not till night dine;
  And the order of Nature thus turn topsy turvy! 
  You’ll quickly contract Palsy, jaundice, and scurvy!!

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The man who makes an appointment with his stomach and does not keep it disappoints his best friend.

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SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY

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[Illustration:  Swan River Settlement.]

Copied from a handsome Chart, by permission of the publisher, Mr. Cross, 18, Holborn, opposite Furnivals’ Inn.

EMIGRATION.

SWAN RIVER SETTLEMENT.

(Concluded from page 300.)

[We resume the description of the Swan River Settlement, which will be further illustrated by the annexed outline.]

The animal productions, we may take for granted, are generally the same as those of New South Wales.  The human species, in their physical qualities and endowments are the same.  Most of them wore kangaroo cloaks, which were their only clothing.  They carry the same kind of spears, and the womera, or throwing stick, as are used by those in New South Wales.  In the summer months they frequent the sea-coast, where their skill in spearing fish is described as quite wonderful.  In winter they mostly adhere to the woods on the higher grounds, where the kangaroos,