Jardin des Plantes

MÉNAGERIE (JARDIN DES PLANTES.)

BESIDES which, forming parts of the same Establishment, are, the Museum of Natural History, and the Botanical Garden.—This view includes but a small part of an extensive ground, apportioned in enclosures as here represented, containing Tenants whose natures admit of such liberty:—others, being more confined, who “close pent “up,” “lose the name of action.”

In the distance is seen, a new range of dens, recently taken possession of by Lions, Tigers, Panthers, &c. Nearer, is a Bison;—at the extremity on the right, are Wild Boars;—adjoining, “keeps” Bruin “his court,”—and in the foreground, are, one who has not arriv'd at Bear's Estate, and his companion “of a larger growth,” who has taken up his daily position (to the mutual entertainment of the visitors and himself) in order to receive copious supplies of apples, &c,—the only tax he pays for which, consisting of certain occasional smites in the regions of his optics and olfactories—previously to their being finally deposited in the proper receptacle.