Remarkable Strength of Affection in Animals - Surprising Instances of their Sociality - Unaccountable Faculties possessed by some Animals - Remarkable Instances of Fasting in Animals - Extraordinary Adventures of a Sheep - Sagacity of a Monkey - Astonishing Instance of Sagacity in a Horse - Sagacity of Dogs - Curious Anecdotes of a Dog - Remarkable

Far as creation's ample range extends,

The scale of sensual, mental powers, ascends:

Mark, how it mounts to man's imperial race.

From the preen myriads in the peopled grass !

What modes of sight, betwixt each wide extreme,

The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam:

Of smell, the headlong lioness between,

And hound sagacious, on the tainted green:

Of hearing:, from the life that fills the flood,

To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood:

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine !

Feels at each thread, and lives alone; the line:

In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true,

From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew:

How instinct varies in the grovelling swine,

Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine !

Twixt that and reason, what a nice barrier,

For ever separate, yet for ever near ! Pope.