side. It is a handsome mansion, containing some very spacious
apartments, with some few relics of its original decoration.
Upon the site of this and the adjoining streets was formerly a
palace of the archbishops of York, the only vestige of which is
the water-gate, called York Stairs erected by Inigo Jones.
Throughout the narrative it will be seen that the Editor has
mistaken Norfolk-street for Buckingham-street.--_Ed. M._

[8] Memoirs of J. Evelyn.


[9] Evelyn's Sylva.


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THE NATURALIST.

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STOMACH OF THE OSTRICH.

(_To the Editor_.)


Allow me to add, as a further illustration of the various and uncommon