varieties are exceedingly beautiful when polished, and produce high
prices among Conchologists.

It is easy to conceive that the ingenious habits of this wonderful
creature may have suggested to man the power of sailing upon the sea,
and of the various apparatus by which he effects that object. The
whole creation abounds with similar instances of Nature ministering to
the proud purposes of art: one of them, the origin of the Gothic Arch
from the "high o'erarching groves," is mentioned by Warburton, in his
_Divine Legation_, and is a sublime lesson for besotted man.

[8] Magazine of Natural History, No.1.

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THE SELECTOR;
AND
LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.

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VIDOCQ.


[We have abridged one of the most striking chapters in the very
extraordinary history of Vidocq; premising that the interest of the