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had swallowed; but the third, an old lion,
(or clap match,) foate d; and, after towing
his carcass alongside, he found his weigh I
to be 1929 lbs with only three stones in
his stomach, but not of sufficient weight
to carry him down with the others. The
allgators of the Nile, and of the South
ern States, are known to have more or less
of this kind of ballast aboad i, being
found in them when killed and opened"


This is singular fact in natural philo-
sophy, and shows, in remarkable NAH
ner, the intelligence of seals. They have
undoubtedly that repugnence which all
intelligent animals feel at having their car
casses "cut up" whether TO supply men
tal light to medical tyros, or the oleagi-
nous substance which dispels the natural
darkness. Hence they swallow enormous
stone, that when they are shot their bodies
will Immediately sink to a secure grave
in the depths of the deep. The Indians
always run off with the dead bodies of
their friends, to prevent them from falling
into the hands of their enemles.-Ledger.