Identifier: saturdaymagazine02soci (find matches)
Title: The Saturday magazine
Year: 1832 (1830s)
Authors: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education
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Publisher: London : J. W. Parker
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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feelings. The refreshing, and almost univer-sally approved beverage, tea, when offered by someEuropean travellers to the Turkish ladies, was re-jected as insipid and valueless. We find in someold English dramas, corvorants and soland geesereckoned among the dainties of the table. At thepresent time crabs, lobsters, and other shell-fish are,in this and other countries, considered as delicacies,while the inhabitants of the eastern parts of Europetvurn from them with disgust, to make a meal offlocusts scorched over a fire. Bread dipped in train-oil is greedily devoured by the Laplanders, and evenby the more civilized Russians; and Captain Parry,when on his voyage of discovery to the North Pole,contrived to keep a restless Esquimaux in his chair,while his likeness was taken, by treating him at in-tervals with tallow-candles. If we look nearer home,we find the lower orders in Scotland, in many cases,refusing eels as food, while, on this side the border,they are considered a delicious dish.
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THE IGUANA, OR EATABLE LIZARD- 174 THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE. (May 4, The Iguana is fonnd within the tropics, in SouthAmerica, the West Indies, and the islands of theIndian Ocean. The species figured in the print is anative of AmbojTia, the chief of the Molucca Islands,in the Indian Ocean. The Iguana is extremely active,and climbs trees ■with great quickness and dexterity;its principal food is fruit and flowers, and small in-sects or worms. Its bite, although not dangerous,is extremely painful, on account of the strength ofthe creat\ues jaws. The thickness of its skull ren-ders it very tenacious of life, and the mode of de-struction employed by the hunters, who attack it withclubs, is far from expeditious in its operation. THE FOLLY OF A BELIEF IN FORTUNE-TELLING, OR ASTROLOGY. The belief in Judicial Astrology, which appears tobe adapted only to the darkest ages, continued, not-,withstanding the vast progress made in literature andscience, to be cherished pretty generally among theunedu

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