The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . TERIOUS SOUNDS. The wide spread sail of a ship, rendered concave by agentle breeze, is a good collector of sound. It hap-pened, says Dr. Arnott, once, on board a ship sailingalong the coast of Brazil, far out of sight of land, that thepersons walking on deck, when passing a particular spot,always heard very distinctly the sound of bells, varying asin human rejoicings. All on board came to listen, and wereconvinced; but the phenomenon was most afterwards, it was ascertained that, at the time ofobservation, the bells
The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . TERIOUS SOUNDS. The wide spread sail of a ship, rendered concave by agentle breeze, is a good collector of sound. It hap-pened, says Dr. Arnott, once, on board a ship sailingalong the coast of Brazil, far out of sight of land, that thepersons walking on deck, when passing a particular spot,always heard very distinctly the sound of bells, varying asin human rejoicings. All on board came to listen, and wereconvinced; but the phenomenon was most afterwards, it was ascertained that, at the time ofobservation, the bells of the city of St. Salvador, on theBrazilian coast, had been ringing on the occasion of a festi-val; their sound, therefore, favoured by a gentle wind, hadtravelled, perhaps, one hundred miles by smooth water,and had been brought to a focus by the sail on the particu-lar situation, or deep, where it was listened to. It appears,from this, that a machine might be constructed, having thesame relation to sound that a telescope has to sight. Edin. Phil. AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. GRISLY [Plate XL] Grisly Bear. Mackenzie, voyages Si-c. 160.—Gj-isly,brown, white and variegated Bear. Lewis & Clark.—Grizzly Bear. Wardens United States. GodmanNat. Hist. i. p. 131. — Ursus Horribilis. Ord. to the Rocky Mountains, ii. p. 52.— UrsusCinereus. Desm. Mammal. — Ursus Ferox. Lewis &Clark. Richardson. Faun. An. bor. 24. — UrsusCandescens. Hamilton Smith. Griffiths and p. 229. & 5. No. 320.—Peales Museum. The Grisly Bear belongs to a division of the carnivora,which, although far less sanguinary than the other groupsof his formidable order, and endowed with a faculty ofwholly subsisting on vegetable food, nevertheless containssome of the largest and most powerful of the destructivemammalia. This division, which comprehends severalvery closely allied genera, is termed Plantigrade, the indi-viduals comprising it treading on the whole
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