. Cassell's natural history . THE PEAPOCK.* The Peacock was originally brought from India, and thence into Persia and )hanes mentions Persian peacocks, and Suidas calls the peacock the Medianbird. In the Scriptures it is enumerated among the costly articles imported by theships of Tarshish, employed by Solomon to enrich his country with the remarkableproducts of foreign nations. The fleet of the Hebrew monarch might easily prociire iteither from India or Persia. From Persia it was gradually diffused through India, Egypt,Greece, and Europe. The cradle of the peacock has long since
. Cassell's natural history . THE PEAPOCK.* The Peacock was originally brought from India, and thence into Persia and )hanes mentions Persian peacocks, and Suidas calls the peacock the Medianbird. In the Scriptures it is enumerated among the costly articles imported by theships of Tarshish, employed by Solomon to enrich his country with the remarkableproducts of foreign nations. The fleet of the Hebrew monarch might easily prociire iteither from India or Persia. From Persia it was gradually diffused through India, Egypt,Greece, and Europe. The cradle of the peacock has long since been determined. It is in the countries ofsouthern Asia and the vast archipelago of the Eastern ocean that this bird appears tohave fixed its dwelling, and to live in a state of freedom. Such is the testimony of * Pavo Cristatus. 40G THE FEATHERED TRIBES. numerous travellers who are worthy of implicit contideuce. The chase of the peacock iswell known to form one of the chief amusements in Bengal, and in the islands of Java an
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