How far this story may get belief, I know not; but such they aver is the truth, while they mournfully lament the sad affair.—­They point out a small hole in the bank where you may hear the waters dashing with fury against the projecting rocks.  This, some imagine to be the noise of infernal spirits, who have taken up their abode in this tremendous abyss; while others persist in their opinion, that the lover’s name was Deville, and that it retains his name to this day, in commemoration of the horrid deed.

I have seen, and taken a view of the frightful place, which may rather be imagined than described.  One part of the water was formerly so narrow, that a wager was laid by a gentleman that he could span it with the thumb and little finger, and which he would have accomplished, but his adversary, getting up in the night time, chipped a piece off the rock with a hammer, and thus won the wager.  It is now, however, little more than from a foot and a half, to two feet broad, excepting at the falls and Devil’s Hole.  The water runs into the Eden at the distance of about a mile or two from Staincroft Bridge.  Trout are caught with the line and net in great quantities, and are particularly fine here.

W.H.H.

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ANECDOTES OF A TAMED PANTHER.

BY MRS. BOWDICH.

[Mrs. Bowdich is the widow of Mr. Thomas Edward Bowdich, who fell a victim to his enterprize in exploring the interior of Africa, in 1824.  Mr. B. was a profound classic and linguist and member of several learned societies in England and abroad.  In 1819 he published, in a quarto volume, his “Mission to Ashantee,” a work of the highest importance and interest.  Mrs. B., whose pencil has furnished embellishments for her husband’s literary productions, has published “Excursions to Madeira, &c.,” and this amiable and accomplished lady has now in course of publication, a work on the Fresh-water Fishes of Great Britain.—­The subsequent anecdotes are of equal interest to the student of natural history and the general reader, especially as they exhibit the habits and disposition of the Panther in a new light.  The Ounce, a variety of the Panther is, however, easily tamed and trained to the chase of deer, the gazelle, &c.—­for which purpose it has long been employed in the East, and also during the middle ages in Italy and France.—­Mr. Kean, the tragedian, a few years since, had a tame Puma, or American Lion, which he kept at his house in Clarges-street, Piccadilly, and frequently introduced to large parties of company.—­ED.]

I am induced to send you some account of a panther which was in my possession for several months.  He and another were found when very young in the forest, apparently deserted by their mother.  They were taken to the king of Ashantee, in whose palace they lived several weeks, when my hero, being much larger