Kathreen in his arms, he flies, unharmed by random shots and rustling arrows, toward the cove, where he has concealed his canoe in readiness for flight. But, alas! it floats far away from the shore, having been loosened by the billows, or by some designing hand. The foe is almost upon him. They reach the canoe, but are discovered from the shore: "And soon, well-mann'd, each bark canoe Ensenore turns southward, toward the head of the lake, propelling his canoe with one arm, and sustaining the trembling maiden with the other. Well knowing that he can, by artifice alone, elude his pursuers, he doubles on his track like the fox: "Now near and nearer comes the foe, More near, he sees each scowling brow! And watch'd their dark forms flitting by; He breathed not till he saw the last; They reached home in safety, after a succession of remarkable adventures in the then wilderness of Central New York, and at the hymeneal altar, Kathreen became the happy bride of her brave and well-loved Ensenore. The shores of the Owasco and the Skaneateles, as may be seen from our beautiful engravings, present some of the most picturesque and romantic scenes. With a few more mountains, the lake region of Central New York would be the Scotland of our country. The Skaneateles is sixteen miles in length, the Owasco twelve, and in one place the two beautiful sisters approach within four miles of each other. At the head of the former, embosomed among forest-clothed mountains as grand as the Highlands of the Hudson, is Glen Haren, where hundreds of invalids annually seek health, and the lovers of wild scenery and woodland sports may find a summer home with our genial friend, Dr. Jackson. Beautiful villas are scattered along the more modest shores of the Owasco. At the foot of the lake are the Cottage" and "Meadow Farm;" and "Springside," reposing lovingly on the western shore, is the seat of a celebrated school, whose proprietor was formerly a missionary to China, and is said to have instructed the late insurgent Tae Ping Wang in the doctrines of Christianity. 66 IN FOX-BATS. N this section of the country that bat is deemed a large one whose wings, when measured from tip to tip, exceed twelve inches, or whose body is above that of a small mouse in bulk. In some parts of the world, however, there are members of this well-marked family, the wings of which, when stretched and measured from one extremity to the other, are five feet and upward in extent, and their bodies large in proportion. These are the Foxbats, a pair of which were lately procured for the London Zoological Gardens. It is from one of this pair that the very characteristic figure of Mr. Wolf has been derived. There is something very odd in the appearance of such an animal, suspended as it is during the day head downward, in a position the very sight of which suggests to the looker-on ideas of nightmare and apoplexy. As the head peers out from the membrane, contracted about the body, and investing it as in a bag, and the strange creature chews a piece of apple presented by its keeper, the least curious observer must be struck with the peculiarity of the position, and cannot fail to admire the velvety softness and great elasticity of the membrane which forms its wings. It must have been from an exaggerated account of the Fox-bats of the Eastern Islands that the ancients derived their ideas of the dreaded Harpies, those fabulous winged monsters sent out by the relentless Juno, and whose names are synoymous with rapine and cruelty. Some of these bats, before they were thoroughly known, frightened British sailors not a little when they met with them. Captain Cook, in the narrative of his first voyage, alludes to this; one of the seamen of the Endeavor, when that ship lay off the Australian coast in 1770, during his rambles in the woods, told his messmates on his return that he verily believed he had seen the devil: "We naturally inquired in what form he had appeared, and his answer was in so singular a style that I shall set down his own words: 'He was,' says John, as large as a one-gallon keg, and very like it; he had horns and wings, and yet he crept so slowly through the grass, that if I had not been afeard I might have touched him.'" Cook's party afterward encountered this prodigy, which turned out to be a large bat, as big as a partridge and nearly black in color. The ears of the Fox-bat could readily convert themselves into horns to the superstitious eye of one who fancied he saw Satan, as many artists have figured that minister of evil. Dr. Foster, who accompanied Captain Cook on the voyage round the world from 1772 to 1775, observed Fox-bats at the Friendly Islands, where they were seen in large groups of hundreds. Our traveler even notices that some of them flew about the whole day, doubtless from being disturbed by the wandering crews of the British discovery ships. He saw a Casuarina tree of large size, the branches of which were festooned with at least five hundred of these pendent Cheiroptera in various attitudes of ease, according to the habits and notions of the bat tribes, who can hang either by the hind or by the fore feet. He noticed that they skimmed over the water with wonderful facility, and he saw one in the act of swimming, though he cannot say that it did so with either ease or expertness; they are known, however, to frequent the water in order to wash themselves from any impurities on their fur or wings, as well as to get rid of the vermin which may be infesting them. necked species to be very abundant during his survey of the north coast of Australia. As the boats were engaged in the survey, flights of these bats kept hovering over them, uttering a disagreeable screeching noise, and filling the air with a faint mildewy odor, far from agreeable to the smell. The sailors gave these bats the name of "monkey birds," without being aware that naturalists in their systems consider them as following closely the order which contains these four-handed lovers of trees. Captain Stokes observes that the leathern wings have a singularly heavy flap, and that a flight of bats would suddenly alight on a bamboo, and bend it to the ground with their weight. Each individual struggles on alighting to settle on the same spot, and like rooks or men in similar circumstances, they do not succeed in fixing themselves without making a great deal of noise. When first they clung to the bamboo, they did so by means of the claw on the outer edge of the flying membrane, and then they gradually settled. Among the wild and varied scenery of those groups of islands called the Friendly Islands, the Feejees, and the Navigators', species of Fox-bat form one of the characteristics of the place to the observant eye; while, if the traveler should happen to be blind, their presence among the otherwise fragrant forests would be readily perceived from the strong odor which taints the atmosphere, and which, says the naturalist of the United States Exploring Expedition, "will always be remembered by persons who have visited the regions inhabited by these animals." A specimen of the Fox-bat was kept in Philadelphia for several years; and like most creatures, winged as well as wingless, was amiable to those persons who were constantly near it, while it showed clearly and unmistakably its dislike to strangers. On its voyage, this strange passenger was fed on boiled rice, sweetened with sugar; while at the Museum it was solaced and fed during its captivity chiefly on fruit, and now and then appeared to enjoy the picking from the bones of a boiled fowl. Mr. Macgillivray discovered a new species of Fox-bat on Fitzroy Island, off the coast of Australia, when he was naturalist of the British ship Rattlesnake. Captain Lord Stokes found the red- | He fell in with this large fruit-eating bat (Pteropus conspicillatus) on the wooded slope of a hill. They were in prodigious numbers, and presented the appearance, as they flew along in the bright sunshine, of a large flock of rooks. As they were approached, a strong musky odor became apparent, and a loud, incessant chattering was heard. He describes the branches of some of the trees as bending beneath the loads of bats which clung to them. Some of these were in a state of inactivity, sleeping or composing themselves to sleep, while many specimens scrambled along among the boughs and took to flight on being disturbed. He shot several specimens, three or four at a time, as they hung in clusters. Unless they were killed outright, they continued suspended for some time; when wounded, they are difficult to handle, as they bite severely, and at such times their cry resembles somewhat the squalling of a child. The flesh of these bats is described to be excellent, and no wonder, when they feed on the sweetest fruits; the natives regard it as nutritious food, and travelers in Australia, like the adventurous Leichhardt on his journey to Port Essington, sometimes are furnished with a welcome meal from the fruit-eating Fox-bats which fall in their way. Travelers observe that in a state of nature the Fox-bats only eat the ripest and the best fruit, and in their search for it they climb with great facility along the under side of the branches. In Java, as Dr. Horsfield observes, these creatures, from their numbers and fruit-eating propensities, occasion incalculable mischief, as they attack every kind that grows there, from the cocoa-nut to the rarer and more delicate productions, which are cultivated with care in the gardens of princes and persons of rank. The doctor observes that delicate fruits, as they approach to maturity, are ingeniously secured by means of a loose net or basket, skillfully constructed of split bamboo. Without this precaution little valuable fruit would escape the ravages of the kalong." We have mentioned that the Fox-bats are occasionally eaten in Australia. Colonel Sykes alludes to the native Portuguese in Western India eating the flesh of another species of Pteropus; and it would seem that but for prejudice, their flesh, like that of the young of the South American monkeys, is extremely delicate. The colonel says, writing of the Pteropus medus, a species found in India, “I can personally testify that their flesh is delicate and without disagreeable flavor." The Javanese Fox-bat occasionally affords amusement to the colonists as well as natives, who chase it, according to Dr. Horsfield, "during the moonlight nights, which, in the latitude of Java, are uncommonly serene. He is watched in his descent to the fruit-trees, and a discharge of small shot readily brings him to the ground. By this means I frequently obtained four or five individuals in the course of an hour." William Dampier, in 1687, observed the habits of a Fox-bat on one of the Philippine Islands, though he has exaggerated its size, when he judged "that the wings, stretched out in length, could not be less asunder than seven or eight feet from tip to tip." He records that "in the evening, as soon as the sun was set, these creatures would begin to take their flight from this island in swarms like bees, directing their flight over to the main island. Thus we should see them rising up from the island till night hindered our sight; and in the morning, as soon as it was light, we should see them returning again like a cloud to the small island till sunrising. This course they kept constantly while we lay here, affording us every morning and evening an hour's diversion in gazing at them and talking about them." Dr. Horsfield describes the species, which is abundant in the lower parts of Java, as having the same habit. During the day it retreats to the branches of a tree of the genus Ficus, where it passes the greater portion of the day in sleep, "hanging motionless, ranged in succession, and often in close contact, they have little resemblance to living beings, and by a person not accustomed to their economy, are readily mistaken for a part of the tree, or for a fruit of uncommon size suspended from its branches." The doctor describes their society as being generally silent during the day, except when a contention arises among them to get out of the influence of the sun, when they utter a sharp, piercing shriek. Their claws are so sharp, and their attachment is consequently so strong, that they cannot readily leave their hold without the assistance of their wings, and if shot when in this position they remain suspended. THE THE MAMMOTH CAVE. HE Deserted Chambers, in addition to | seat himself and view the ragged dome their other horrid attractions, contain above, or peep into the capless cavern some very curious and dangerous pits-the beneath. more frightful for the chaos of darkness that hides them from observation. The shortest branch contains three or four over one of these projects a rock in the shape of a side-saddle, where, if the visitor is fond of fearful sights, he may Not far from the Side-Saddle Pit is the Covered Pit, alike curious and perilous. It is about fifteen feet in diameter, and covered by a thin plate of rock, which lies on it like the lid of a pot, though it is a lid somewhat too small for the vessel, to which |