sound. 'Tis the whistling or lowing of the noble stag, call
ing its companion. The moose, the most vigilant of animals,
ives the signal of alarm. He has heard the cracking nch - be has inhaled the hunter's deadly breath [ ?] ; a confused noise is heard from the mountain; the sportsman raises his eager eye to its summit, and scans a flock of reindeer perched upon the snow; they are started at the approach of man; in an instant they are lost arnong the inaccessible pinnacles, the
Palaces where Nature thrones Sublimity in icy halls."
often catch a glimpse of the graceful forms and nimble feats of the roe-bucks, as they caper and gallop, or tarry an instant to look around with their lancet cars distended I
catch every sound; these wild forest stragglers resume their course, and finally penetrate into the sombre forest. Flocks of wild goats gambol carelessly and tranquilly beside herds of mountain sheep aN3~-e overhanging precipices and peaked rocks, chequered by patches of snow, far beyond the reach of human footsteps.
A monstrous animal, the grey [grizzly] bear, which replaces on our mountains the African lion, is not content with growling and menacing the intrepid venturer, who dare, infringe on his cavernous dominions, but grinds his expressive of his rage. Suddenly, a well-aimed gunshot forces him to make a lowly reverence; the formidable beast rolls in the dust, biting the sand saturated with his blood, I expires.
The ordinary music of the desert is the shrill cry of panther, and the howling of the wolf. The diminutive mountain hare, six inches high," and whose biography bas not yet found a place in natural history, annuses itself amidst the stony rubbish, and exhibits wonderful activity; whilst
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