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| Vol. XX. No. 556.] | SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1832. | [PRICE 2d. |
SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
[Although the reader will scarcely fail to recognise the typographicalamendments contemplated in the Preface to our last volume, we may beallowed to point attention to the most important change. To give our souls"elbow-room," we have widened our columns so as to add upwards of twopages throughout each sheet of our future volumes: that is sixteen pagesof the size of the present will be found to contain as much as eighteenpages the size of those in our last volume. But the page has not beenwidened like the citizen's back—at the expense of the corporation—or ofthe public. The whole of the type is new, having been cast, as theprospectus says, expressly for this work; its face is as brilliant as ourhopes, and so, now, with the reader's permission, Flow on thou shiningriver.]
We commenced our last volume with three Vignette Views in the SurreyZoological Gardens. The season was then cold and ungenial, the treesleafless; in short, it was about mid-winter, but the magic pencil of ourartist invested his scenes with all the pride of summer. Upon the presentoccasion, our Engravings need not the aid of his creative fancy. TheGardens are now
made glorious by the summer sun
—the weather and the public are all propitious, and hundreds of gailydressed folks are flocking to inspect the zoological and botanicalcuriosities of the place.
During the six months since our last visit, Mr. Cross has beenindefatigable. The grounds have been laid out under the superintendance ofMr. Henry Phillips, the author of Sylva Florifera, and it is almostimpossible to give the reader an idea of their beauty and variety. Theavenues to the various buildings are planted with forest-trees, and eachtree and new plant has its name affixed on a tally; a botanical garden, ona small scale, is, moreover talked of.
But we are forgetting the zoological tenants. The visiter enters by abroad w