Description: THE PENNY MAGAZINE March 1, 1834 Mango Tree the Ostrich This is a paper which is 190 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, but otherwise the publication is in excellent, bright and attractive condition. The issue leads off with a front page article on THE MANGO TREE, which is illustrated with a fine woodcut engraving measuring approximately 5x6 inches in size, showing a nice example of this tree. This picture is followed by 80 lines of text, extending over to 1/4th of the next page. It says, in part: The Mango-tree is a native of India and the south-western countries of Asia, and also grows abundantly in Brazil and the West Indies. It was introduced into Jamaica in the year 1782. It is a large tree, attaining the height of thirty or forty feet, with thick and wide-extended branches, and has been compared to the oak, in its manner of growth. The leaves are scattered, stalked, simple, about a span long and an inch or two wide, wavy, entire, tapering at each end, veiny, smooth, and shining. . . . The varieties of the mango are very numerous. Upwards of eighty are cultivated, and the size of the trees and the quality of the fruits vary according to the countries where they grow, and the circumstances of their situation. While the fruit, as a whole, is one of the most delicious of vegetable products, in some varieties it is so deteriorated as to have been, rather disparagingly perhaps, compared to a 'mixture of tow and turpentine.' The mangoes of Asia are said to be much superior in size and flavour to those of America; and so highly are some of the finer trees prized in India, that guards are placed over them during the fruit season. . . . Travellers and residents in the East speak in warm terms of the mango, as by far the best fruit that is generally produced in those regions, and as that which is most uniformly grateful to an European palate. . . . The several parts of the tree are all applied to some use by the Hindoos. . . Etc. * * * * * * * * * * * * * The center of the issue has over two pages on THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, featuring a 6x8-inch engraving of "Front of the East India House, Leadenhall Street." This is followed by an article on THE CAT PAINTER, about Gottfriend Mind (1768-1814), a Swiss artist who specialized in painting cats. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * On the back page is an article about SWIFTNESS OF THE OSTRICH. This features a 3x4-inch illustration of "Ostrich carrying a Negro." The accompanying text is over 60 lines long, and says, in part: The bird most celebrated for fleetness of running is the ostrich, or bird camel (Struthio Camelus), as it may well be named. . . . the wings serve her both for sails and oars, whilst her feet, which have only two toes, and are not unlike the camel's, can bear great fatigue. Though the ostrich is universally admitted to go faster than the fleetest horse, yet the Arabs on horseback contrive to run these birds down, their feathers being valuable, and their flesh not to be despised. . . . The chase is often continued for a day or two, when the poor ostrich is starved out and exhausted . . . it endeavors to hide itself from the enemies it cannot avoid, running into some thicket, or burying its head in the sand. . . . 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 most issues were illustrated with several fine woodcut engravings. 123 [gsp10206] _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))
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