_A Bird, from the East Indies._
ITS height is 5 feet, weighs near 100 pounds; it will eat half
a peck of apples at a meal, swallow whole eggs, also stones
and apples as large as eggs, and jump to a great
height.--Goldsmith says, in his history of Animated Nature, it
has the head of a Warrior, the eye of a Lion, the defence of a
Porcupine, and the swiftness of a Courser.
It is fond of all kinds of vegetables and fruits. It will pick
a pea out of a Child's hand without injury. Many that have
seen it, say it is the greatest curiosity of the kind ever
exhibited here. Children of seven years old can ride
it.--Admittance for grown persons 9 pence--Children half
price.
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--> _The remarkable bird, called the_ CASSOWARY, _now
exhibiting in this town, is described by Goldsmith in his 3d
volume of Animated Nature, page 39, American edition.--After
describing him, the Doctor observes, that "the southern parts
of the most eastern Indies seem to be its natural climate. His
domain, if we may so call it, begins where that of the ostrich
terminates. The latter has never been found beyond the Ganges;
while the Cassowary is never seen nearer than the islands of
Banda, Sumatra, Java, the Molucca islands, and the
corresponding parts of the continent. Yet even here this
animal seems not to have multiplied in any considerable
degree, as we find one of the kings of Java making a present
of one of these birds to the captain of a Dutch ship,
considering it as a very great rarity."_
_Gazette_, August 8, 1800.
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The following notice, taken from the "Salem Gazette," July 13, 1790, has
an interest to us from what it says of the likenesses "produced from a
Spark of Electricity." It is difficult to conjecture what this means;
though additional interest is derived from the fact of these likenesses
having been presented by Dr. Franklin's grandson.