The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts (1834) (14802308923)

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Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chidley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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metimes visible, and even toperform kind offices for the colliers, occasionallydrawing up buckets of water, and performing their work underground. If pursued, they disappear likea flash of lightning. In that county, however, the ap-pearance of these goblins is deemed to be, occasionally,either the forerunner of disaster, or to mark the un-just conduct of some parties connected with theworks. These superstitions bear a resemblance to the swarth fairy of the mines of Germany, where thereare two species, the one fierce and malevolent, theother a gentle race, appearing like little old men,dressed as miners, and not above two feet high. But here we must pause. In our next paper weshall endeavour further to illustrate the history andnumberless curious leg-ends connected with the fairymythology of Wales, with such collateral circum-stances from the popular belief of other countries, asmay tend to confer additional interest on the subject. Yyvyan. THE ELEPHANT; AS DELINEATED BY MATTHEW PARIS.
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In a preceding article, viz. On the knowledgepossessed by Europeans of tbe Elephant in the thir-teenth century, (p. 335,) it is mentioned that bothMatthew/ Paris, and John de Wallingford, madedrawings of the Elephant, which the King of Francepresented to Henry III., in the year 1255. Fromthat by Matthew Paris, (occurring in the CottonianMSS. marked Nero D. i. fol. 168. b.) a tracing hasrecently been made for our use,—from which, re-duced to about one-fifth of the original size, the above wood-cut has been executed. Although cu-rious, it cannot be regarded as a correct represen-tation of the Elephant, since neither the feet nor thehollow of the back could have been so proportioned,in the real animal, as they appear in the drawing.The dissevered proboscis was, most probably, intro-duced, to show the different inflections of which thatmember is susceptible. The drawing by Walling-ford is a mere outline tinted of a reddish colour, andbut very little larger than the annexed cut THE GRAPH