Intellect in Brutes

Abstract

A VERY interesting instance of animal intelligence has been recently reported in one of our newspapers, and may appear sufficiently remarkable to merit more extended notice. A large and destructive fire lately took place upon the shores of the East River opposite to New York, between which city and Long Island this channel passes. The occasion was the spread of naphtha from a burning oil-ship, which instantly became a trail of fire from which the flames swept into well-filled lumber-yards covered with pine boards, and thence to the loaded barges which lined the docks along the river front, and extended up the banks of a small neighbouring creek.