e the original plant or butterfly attached to the paper--no
mean compliment to the artist. The engravings in Charles Bell's
Anatomy of Expression always excited much interest when shown to the
Polynesians; the plate representing Laughter never failed of exciting
sympathy. A caricature representation of one of the fashionable belles
of 1828 puzzled them exceedingly; some thought it "a bird," others that
it was a nondescript of some kind, but when they were told that it was a
Haina London, or English lady, they laughed, and said Parora, "you are
in joke," so incredible did it seem to their unsophisticated minds.[11]

[10] From a drawing, obligingly furnished by Mr. George Bennett,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, &c.

[11] Abridged from the _United Service Journal_.

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MOUNT ARARAT.

A short time since there were given in the _St. Petersburgh Academical
Journal_ some authentic particulars of Professor Parrot's journey to
Mount Ararat. After being baffled in repeated attempts, he at length
succeeded in overcoming the obstacles which beset him, and ascertained
the positive elevation of its peak to be 16,200 French feet: it is,
therefore, more than 1,500 feet loftier than Mount Blanc. He describes
the summit as being a circular plane, about 160 feet in circumference,
joined by a gentle descent, with a second and less elevated one towards
the east. The whole of the upper region of the mountain, from the height
of 12,750 English feet, being covered with perpetual snow and ice. He
afterwards ascended what is termed "The Little Ararat," and reports it
to be about 13,100 English feet high.--W.G.C.

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SAILING UP THE ESSEQUIBO.

(_Concluded from page 360._)

A family of Indians was seen crossing the river in their log canoe, and
disappearing under the bushes on the opposite side; my companion and
myself paddled after them, and we landed under some locust trees, and
found an Indian settlement. The logies were sheds, open all round, and
covered with the leaves of the trooly-palm, some of them twenty-four
feet long; and suspended from the bamboo timbers of the roof were
hammocks of net-work, in which the men were lazily swinging. One or two
of those who were awake were fashioning arrow-heads out of hard wood.
The men and children were entirely naked, with the exception of the blue
_lap_ or cloth for the