legacy to suffering and insulted Nature."

[1] _The Mirror_, it will be remembered, was the first work of
its class that presented this economical attraction to the
public: the Engravings throughout the Series number upwards
of Eight Hundred.

[2] In the Museum at Newcastle, are many of the identical
specimens from which Bewick drew his figures for the
wood-cuts of his zoological works.

[3] See a paper on "the Life, Genius, and Personal Habits of
Bewick," in the _Magazine of Natural History_, vol. iii.; by
his friend, John F. Dovaston, Esq., A.M., of Westonfelton,
near Shrewsbury. There is a vein of generous enthusiasm--a
glow of friendship--a halo of the finest feelings of our
nature--throughout and around this memoir, which has the
sincerity and singleness of heart of--A FRIEND.

[4] In Mr. Dovaston's paper is a misprint, which it may be as
well to notice here. It is stated that Bewick cut the Old
Exchange, at Newcastle, (the vignette of the above volume) in
1719.

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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.

FUNERAL GARLANDS.

Mr. Rhodes, in his interesting _Excursions in Derbyshire_, notices the
following rite at the village of Hathersage: "In this church we observed
the traces of a custom that once generally prevailed in various parts of
the kingdom, but is now almost totally disused; when unmarried women died,
they were usually attended to the grave by the companions of their early
years, who, in performing the last sad offices of friendship, accompanied
the bier of the deceased with garlands tastefully composed of wreaths of
flowers and every emblem of youth, purity, and loveliness, that
imagination could suggest. When the body was interred, the garlands were
borne into the church, and hung up in a conspicuous station, in memory of
the departed. In Hathersage Church there were several of these memorials
of early dissolution, but only one of a recent date: the others were
covered with dust, and the hand of time had destroyed their freshness."

In Mr. Tymms's _Family Topographer_, vol. ii. we read--"In Stockton Church,
Wilts, is a piece of iron frame-work, with some remains of faded ribbon
depending from it. It is the last remain of the custom of carrying a
garland decorated with ribbons before the corpse of a young unmarried
woman, and afterwards