See Simmona's "Colonial Magazine."
"Humph!" said the king.
"'We left this kingdom in great haste, and, after some days, came to
another, where we were astonished to perceive myriads of monstrous
animals with horns resembling scythes upon their heads. These
hideous beasts dig for themselves vast caverns in the soil, of a
funnel shape, and line the sides of them with, rocks, so disposed
one upon the other that they fall instantly, when trodden upon by
other animals, thus precipitating them into the monster's dens,
where their blood is immediately sucked, and their carcasses
afterwards hurled contemptuously out to an immense distance from
"the caverns of death."'"*
* The Myrmeleon-lion-ant. The term "monster" is equally applicable
to small abnormal things and to great, while such epithets as "vast"
are merely comparative. The cavern of the myrmeleon is vast in
comparison with the hole of the common red ant. A grain of silex is
also a "rock."
"Pooh!" said the king.
"'Continuing our progress, we perceived a district with vegetables
that grew not upon any soil but in the air.
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