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Exmouth, embracing Lympstone, with the opposite fishing-village of Starcross, from which rises the bold

The grounds of Nutwell-Court are delightfully varied, both as to form and the variety of woods that adorn them: there is about the plantations a richness scarcely to be expected in the immediate vicinity of a mansion. Nature here shews her efforts to break from the trammels of art, being suffered to sport without fear of the pruning-knife. The elm, the oak, the plane, with the cedar and a variety of other trees, throw their limbs about in seemingly wild har

resque city, with its venerable cathedral, adds considerably to the beauty of the whole on this side; the little town of Topsham, with its nu-hill of Wardborough, covered with merous shipping, forming a fore- pines, that forms a middle distance ground to the estuary. The woods to Mamhead. of Powderham, as seen from Nutwell-Court, are further enriched by the lovely grounds of Mamhead, which rise in the distance immediately behind the castle, surmounted with an obelisk; while the sides are feathered with woods to the top, breaking off into the commanding hills known by the name of Haldown, the pride of Devon for extensive and varied views. The contrast of these bleak bold hills, swelling along the distance in one immense line, immediately behind the richly culti-mony, forming a sylvan retreat truly vated grounds that sweep up its sides, is singularly striking. The immense tract of wood and lawn around Powderham, is finely cut off by the highly cultivated and inclosed country extending along the banks of the Exe by Alphington to Exeter. This, with the pretty little church of Powderham, its parsonage-house nestling among the trees, with the flitting sails of various shapes and hues, The woods are delightfully interforms a whole that is rarely surpass-sected with serpentine walks, which ed. It is true a fine river intervenes, in parts skirt the river, and in other but this seems only the link required places penetrate the umbrageous in the chain (extensive as it is) to gloom, producing, with the distant connect the whole with Nutwell, so views, every variety that can be wishhappily do the grounds accord. We ed. say nothing of the views towards

delightful, with its combination of tints, and its brilliant and mellow lights stealing into the recesses rich with deep shadows.

Our Second View of this fine mansion is taken from the river. The gardens are in the rear of the house: they are extensive and well arranged, as well as the hot-houses and conservatories.

ANECDOTES OF THE TIGER AND THE DOG.

THE common tiger of Cochinchi- || iron-wood. It was a beautiful fena is not greatly dreaded, but the male, about two years old, nearly royal tiger is a most terrific animal. three feet high and five feet long. The governor of Saigon presented Her skin is now in the Museum of one of the latter to Lieutenant White, the East India Marine Society at confined in a very strong cage of Salem; for in consequence of the loss.

by bad weather of the stock of pup-slept. From this time they were inpies and kids provided for her on the homeward passage, it was found necessary to shoot her.

In Saigon, says Mr. White, in his Voyage to Cochinchina, where dogs are dog-cheap, we used to give the tigress one every day. They were thrown alive inte her cage; when after playing a while with her victim, as a cat does with a mouse, her eyes would begin to glisten, and her tail to vibrate, which were the immediate precursors of death to the devoted prisoner, which was invariably seized by the back of the neck, the incisions of the sanguinary beast perforating the jugular arteries, while she would traverse the cage, which she lashed with her tail, and suck the blood of her prey, which hung suspended from her mouth.

separable; the tigress appearing to feel for the puppy all the solicitude of a mother, and the dog in return treating her with the greatest affection; and a small aperture was left open in the cage, by which he had free ingress and egress. Experiments were subsequently made by presenting a strange dog at the bars of the cage, when the tigress would manifest great eagerness to get at it: her adopted child was then thrown in, on which she would eagerly pounce; but immediately discovering the cheat, she would caress it with great tenderness. The natives made several unsuccessful attempts to steal this dog.

The motive of the Cochinchinese for endeavouring to possess themselves of this animal seems to be explained at the conclusion of the sub

a curious animal anecdote.

One day a puppy, not at all remarkable or distinguishable in ap-joined passage, which also furnishes pearance from the common herd, was thrown in, who, immediately on perceiving his situation, set up a dismal yell, and attacked the tigress with great fury, snapping at her nose, from which he drew some blood. The tigress appeared to be amused with the puny rage of the puppy, and with as good-humoured an expression of countenance as so ferocious an animal could be supposed to assume, she affected to treat it all as play; and sometimes spreading herself at full length on her side, at others crouching in the manner of the fabled Sphynx, she would ward off with her paw the incensed little animal, till he was finally exhausted. She then proceeded to caress him, endeavouring by many little arts to inspire him with confidence, in which she finally succeeded, and in a short time they lay down together and

During a shooting excursion on shore, near the village of Canjeo, a favourite spaniel strayed from me, says Lieutenant White, and as the strictest search we could make for him was fruitless, we were reluctantly obliged on our return on board to leave poor Pinto behind. We were, however, far from harbouring the idea of abandoning the faithful ani|| mal, without another effort to recover him; and the linguist was accordingly directed to offer a reward for him to the natives: but so great was their dread of the tigers, that none of them would undertake the search: nor were we surprised at their reluctance, when the interpreter informed us, that all the woods around the village were filled with these animals, and that it was no unfrequent case for the inhabitants to be carried

off by them; and that we might at- | us in his character and appearance; for from being a bold, lively, and playful dog, he had now become. dull, morose, and timid, scarcely deigning to notice our caresses; and from being round and fat, he had wasted in that short time to a mere skeleton. This anecdote, trifling in itself, I should not have mentioned, but for the light it threw on the prone

tribute our escape from their fangs to the report of our guns, which had intimidated them. It was not Pinto's fate, however, to furnish food | for the tigers on this occasion; for on the third day after losing him, he was discovered on the beach by an officer in one of the boats, who was going on shore; but no effort they made could induce the dog to ap-ness of the natives to superstitious proach them, and it was not till the boat had been sent the third time with a sailor who was a particular favourite of his, that we regained possession of him: but the most complete metamorphosis had been effected by his temporary separation from

ideas; for they gravely assured us, that the tigers had bewitched the dog, and that he was now endued with supernatural powers, and ought no longer to be treated as a dog, but as a being of superior intelligence.

THE NOVICIATE.
(Concluded from p. 276.)

THE following day Wilmina was awoke before sunrise by the delivery of a note, which the novice who brought it informed her was left with the portress, to be immediately conveyed to her hands. It came from Lady Glammis. Business she alleged of the utmost consequence to her lord hurried her away; she could not think of disturbing her dear sister's repose, and sent her adieus and blessings by a noiseless messenger. This explanation sufficed; and Wilmina was far from regretting her prolonged residence with the abbess, who continually rose in her esteem. Mary was painfully surprised that her mother did not bestow on her one farewell; and when Wilmina shewed her the note, she immediately recognised it to have been written early in the preceding forenoon. Wilmina asked Mary if she knew when the portress received it in charge: she could not tell; but Lady Glammis

said it should not be delivered till
morning. Mary knew nothing of the
contents, nor was she aware of ex-
posing her mother's machinations.
Wilmina made no comment, but was
puzzled to assign a just cause for
Lady Glammis omitting to mention
her departure, since the imperative
business must have been known to
her when they spent some hours to-
gether in the evening after the note
was prepared. She had seen much
to convince her that the lady seldom
acted without design. She wished to
think favourably of her sister; but had
perceived so many evidences of dis-
ingenuous conduct, that a separation
from her gave little pain. At Vallis
Lucis she hoped her mind would be
tranquillized in less time than atGlam-
mis Castle, where every proceeding
was deeply tinctured by the most
unamiable worldly passions.
had seen, with a mixture of pity and
disgust, a proud struggle to support

She

the darts of his countrymen destroy. ed the patriot who came as a peacemaker, and exposed his own life to prevent effusion of blood. Wilmina's sorrow was the most recent. She wept during the celebration of mass; and in the evening, when the sisterhood broke their fast of mourn

a grandeur beyond their means; and a total disregard of the touching claims of charity, claims which the practice of some self-denial would have enabled them to answer; flattery to greater or richer personages that chanced to come their way, oppression of inferiors, the most rugged and arbitary controul of the youngering, she could take no food. The girls, and weak compliances to An- abbess invited her to walk in a grove drew and Annabel; a rigid adherence of cypress and weeping birch inclosto the forms of religion, and a dis-ed by a railing, of which she kept regard of the presiding spirit of Chris- the key. A winding path, nearly tianity. These failings, with endless concealed by the trees, conducted jealousies and sparring among them- them to a marble slab. The abbess selves, were too glaring to pass un- pointed to the inscription, and Wil noticed, nor could Wilmina see them mina inaudibly read these words: without repugnance. At Vallis Lu-"Sacred to the memory of Patrick cis the congenial sentiments, the unaffected goodness of her associates, soothed and elevated the feelings of our heroine. With the pious, upright, and compassionate abbess as superior, the amiable Mary her friend, and the placid sisterhood her companions, she felt more at home than with her own sister. Some disa-solation from preventing or alleviatgreeable inmates belonged to the convent; but supported by the influence and example of the lady abbess, the worthiest characters held a decided preponderance.

The fifteenth day of September opened with solemn masses for the souls of warriors slain at Flodden Field, The lady abbess had to commemorate her eldest and favourite brother, fallen in the prime of manhood; many of the sisters renewed their lament for a father or brothers lost on that fatal plain. Lord Balveny was the last survivor of all that returned from the Northumbrian fight: he was carried off by a faithful follower, covered with wounds; he was restored to health for the honour and happiness of Scotland: yet

Dunbar, a beloved lamented infant. 1519."-" Father Agonisto departed this life January 1540."

"Behold, my daughter," said the lady abbess; "behold the memorial of calamities more insupportable than yours. Yet Innerbetha, once of Glammis, still lives, and derives con

ing sorrow to her fellow-mortals. I was the only daughter of Lord Glammis; fortune smiled on my youth; the faded countenance now enwrapped by the black veil has filled the voice of celebrity. My suitors were many, and of high condition; but I had given my heart to Patrick, the younger son of Lord Dunbar: he was the dearest friend of my brother, the brother whose heart of valour was pierced on Flodden Field. Unhappily the houses of Dunbar and Glammis were at feud: my father would have spurned a proposal of marriage for me from the younger son of his most valued ally; and the brother who could have interceded for me was laid in the tomb. My father took me suddenly to Padua,

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