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 Observations on the Flying E'ish. -ssJuly 6.--The flying fish to day were more nu- naerous and lively. They rose in whole flights to fie right and Jeff of inc hnar. Ay- ing of in different directions, as If the vast body ofthe ship alarmed and disturbed them. Others, however, at q greater distance. kept rising and falling without any visible cause, and apparently in the gladness of their hearts, ifi order to enjoy the sunshine and the temporary change of element.

 Certainly there was no appearance or probability of any larger fish being in pur- suit of even one hundredth part of those which we saw, nor were there any birds to endanger their flight; and those writers who describe the life of these animals as a con- stant succession of alarms, and rendered miserable by fear, have never, conceive, seen them in their nnrth, or considered those natural feelings of health and hilarity which seem to lead all creatures to exert, in mere lightness of heart, whatever bodily powers the Creator has given them. It would be just as reasonable to say that a lamb leaps in the meadow for fear of being bitten by serpents, or that a horse galops round his pasture only because wolf IS at his heels, as to infer, from the flight ofthose animals that they are always pursued by the bonito. Bishop Heber's Journal of a oyage to india.