It has, I believe, been proved that spiders, were it not for their quarrelsome disposition which irritates them to attack and destroy each other, might be employed more profitably than silk-worms.
The hardiness of some of the insects deserves to be mentioned.

A beetle was immersed in proof spirits for four hours, and when taken out crawled away almost immediately.

It was a second time immersed, and continued in a glass of rum for a day and a night, at the expiration of which period it still showed symptoms of life.

Perhaps, however, what I from ignorance deem wonderful is common.
***** The last but the most important production yet remains to be considered.
Whether plodding in London, reeking with human blood in Paris or wandering amidst the solitary wilds of New South Wales--Man is ever an object of interest, curiosity and reflection.
The natives around Port Jackson are in person rather more diminutive and slighter made, especially about the thighs and legs, than the Europeans.

It is doubtful whether their society contained a person of six feet high.