



CONTBIBUTIONS 



TO 



NATURAL HISTOEY, 



HIPPOPHAGY; 



OB, SHOULD WE EAT OUR HORSES?* 



DOCTOR JOHNSON'S beautiful story of 'Kasselas' has made 

 everybody acquainted with the Abyssinian prince who, 

 satiated with the good things of this life, offered a 

 noble reward to the inventor of a new pleasure. The 

 pleasure which the learned, eloquent, and most bene- 

 volent Professor of Zoology to the Faculty of Sciences 

 at Paris proposes for our acceptance is certainly not 

 new ; for many a comfortable meal of nutritious horse- 

 flesh ay, of ass, mule, and zebra flesh has been made 

 of old time, and by many nations further advanced in 

 acquaintance with alimentary substances than we con- 



* 'Lettres sur les Substances Alimentaires, et particulierement 

 sur la Viande de Cheval.' Par M. Isidore Geofifroy Saint-Hil- 

 aire, Membre de 1'Institut, Professeur de Zoologie a la Faculte" 

 des Sciences de Paris, &c. Victor Masson ; Paris. 



