Description: THE PENNY MAGAZINE Jan. 14, 1837 Grotto of Adelsberg the Black Bear Paris Poultry Market This is a paper which is over 180 years old! It is printed in a small format, measuring 7 by 11 in size, and is 8 pages long. The issue came from a bound volume and has typical minor disbinding marks at the spine, plus some light age browning, but is still in attractive, very good condition. The lead article is on THE POULTRY-MARKET, PARIS, with an illustration of the market, captioned Marche a la Volaille, Paris. The remainder of the page, and the next page and a half is related text, describing the market near the foot of the Pont Neuf, and comparing the agricultural products of France with those of Britain, etc. * * * * * * * * * Following this is almost two and a half pages on GROTTO OF ADELSBERG in Austria. The article is illustrated with a pair of nice woodcut engravings titled View of the Entrance to the Cavern of Adelsberg and Grotto of the Maddalena, at Adelsberg. The accompanying text says in part: Adelsberg is situated half-way between Laybach and Trieste, in the district which overhangs the Adriatic, and, as shown in the engraving, is placed at the foot of a considerable eminence. There are two apertures in this eminence, one of which receives the river Poick. One of these openings seems, from its regular appearance, to be the work of art rather than of Nature, while the other aperture has none of this regularity, but is broken into jagged shapes. The entrance by which visiters are conducted into these caverns is considerably higher than that by which the river disappears. . . . Etc. * * * * * * * * * Also in the paper is an article of almost two pages (over 275 lines of text) on ANECDOTES OF THE BLACK BEAR. This piece begins: Throughout a large portion of the continent of North America the black bear may be said to be indigenous; although, like the native tribes of Indians, once lords of that vast country, it has many years ago totally disappeared from the more numerously-peopled districts. But it does not, however, retreat when the first blows of the settler's axe are heard resounding through the gloomy forests . . . it may occasionally be met with prowling about in the more secluded and impervious parts of the forest. Not, however, that it absolutely avoids perambulating the fields and pastures, for in the middle of a field of wheat, about half a mile distant from my dwelling-house, I one day had the mortification to find no fewer than four bears amusing themselves at my expense . . . . Etc. ********************* Background on this publication: The Penny Magazine was a weekly 8-page paper put out by Londons Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Throughout the 1830s, an American edition was very popular in the United States, only to dwindle into extinction during the following decade. The paper did not cover the current news of the day, and carried no advertising. Instead, the Penny Magazine provided excellent essays on a wide array of subjects, such as architecture, science, geography and natural history. The paper was compact in size, and illustrated with fine woodcut engravings. 307 [gsp10226] _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))
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