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230 From “Underground Life, or Mines and Miners,” Illustrating some of the dangers and difficulties in Mining. permission of Messrs. Chapman and HaU,''j 1 Ideal landscape of the Coal Measures period 2 Coal with impression of a fern [Pecopteris dentata) 3 Coal with impression of a fern {Neuropteris speciosa) 4 Coal with impression of Lepodendron gracile 5 Trunks of Sigilland in the Mine of Treuil 6 Map of the coal fields of Great Britain 7 Oil wells at Tar Farm, Pennsylvania 8 Boring operations by steam power 9 Triger’s apparatus for sinking shafts under water 10 Pump-men of Creuzot in leather dresses descending the shaft to examine the pump 11 Descent of a horse down a shaft at Creuzot 12 Miners going down a shaft 13 Consultation in a mine 1^. Explosion in a coal mine 15 Mode of using fire extinguishers in a mine 16 Explosion of fire damp 17 The penitent (or fireman) igniting fire damp 18 Rescue with Galiberfs apparatus 19 Falling in of a mine 10 Inundation of a mine 21 Collision of tubs in a shaft 22 Critical situation of an engineer 23 Miners descending the shaft in slings 24 Woman and young miner at Pontypool 25 Auriferous placers of the Tiperani Valley, in Bolivia 26 Prisoners condemned to the Mines, Mexico 27 Botallack Copper and Tin Mine, Cornwall 28 Dialling the plan in the La Vieille Montagne Mines 29 Miners of Chlhuahira, Mexico 30 Working auriferous sands, California, by turning the water courses 31 Hydraulic method invented in California for working auriferous alluvium 32 Miners at prayer (La Vieille Montagne) before descending the shaft 33 Chilian miners 34 Indian miner of Lake Superior, with hammer and mining costume Pegasu8 m Jtlarnesfi, « By permission oj Messrs. Cyssellf PettCTf figf Gfdptn.j Fk jm Engravings by Retsch. 1 The poet brings Pegasus to the tair 9 'I ho taimcr buys Pegasus Pegasus is yoked to a cart ,, overturns the cart „ harnessed to the coach „ being starved into subjection 7 ,, yoked with an ox to the plough i tf flyj'.ig away to heaven Jack in Luck. 1 Jack finds gold heavy, and exchanges'for horse 2 Jack exchanges horse for cow * 3 Jack exchanges cow for pig 4 Jack cheated into exchanging pig for gooso 5 Jack exchanges goose for grindstone - 6 Grindstone drops into a well (Py permission of Messrs. Cassell^ Fetter^ Galpin) From Cassell’s Illustrated “ Gulliver’s Travels.*' 1 Gulliver, shipwrecked, finds himself amongst strange inhabitants 2 The Lilliputs take Gulliver captive 3 Gulliver’s clemency towards the Lilliputs 4 The inhabitants take stock of Gulliver’s person and property 5 The Lilliputs’ Court 6 The Queen of the Lilliputs smiles on Gulliver 7 Gulliver draws fifty of the enemy's men of war through the water 8 Gulliver created a Nardar 9 Gulliver’s three hundred tailors 10 The King and his Consort dining with Gulliver 11 / n important message to Gulliver 12 Gulliver’s reception by the King and Quecft> 13 „ arrival at the Royal port BROBDINGNAG. 14 Gulliver again meets most strange Inhabitants 15 Gulliver’s encounter with Brobdingnag rats 16 Gulliver and his little nurse 17 ,, exhibited at the inn 18 Gulliver’s rectption at the palace 19 The three great scholars inspecting Gulliver 20 Gulliver and the Queen’s dwarf 21 „ in his yacht 22 „ and the Brobdingnag monkey n ,, entertained by Brobdingnag mu- sicians, &c. 24 „ entertains their majesties by playing 3 _jig 25 Gulliver’s audience with His Majesty 26 Gulliver perusing Brobdingnag literature 27 „ feigns sickness 28 „ carried off by an eagle 29 ,, alights on buaid ship 30 Gulliver’s present to the captain 31 „ arrival at home {By permlssfxin of W. P. Nbnmo, from th^ “ Kilina nnrns'.”) Illustrations of Burns’ Songs. 1 John Anderson, my Jo 2 Address to the toothache 3 Bruce’s address to his army 4 What can a young lassie do wi’ an auld man 5 For the sake of somebody 6 O whistle and I'll come to you, my lad irall iulted Kr colouring.