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and water of life, as a reward from the tribe of Zazahalan 

 for the fire of his cover ; and may a thousand branches 

 shade his carcase from the hysena of the tomb, and the 

 howhng wolf of the desert : and let the tribe of Zaza- 

 halah present him with a festival within an enclosure 

 of walls ; and let thousands assemble at the rising 

 of the sun, in troops hastily, where the tribe holds up 

 under a canopy of celestial signs, within the walls, the 

 saddle with the name and family of the possessor. 

 Then let them strike their hands with a noise inces- 

 santly, and pray to God for immunity for the tribe of 

 Zoab, the inspired tribe." 



" It is a circumstance generally known," says Mr. 

 W. H. Scott, " that bred, or race- horses, from the 

 solidity of their bones, and some peculiar intrinsic 

 force of power in their muscular and fibrous systems, 

 are capable of carrying, and with expedition, far 

 heavier weights in proportion than the northern or 

 native horses of Europe. And 1 have seen the late 

 Mr. Bullock, then riding nearly or altogether twenty 

 stone, cantering over the London pavements upon 

 a little thorough-bred horse, under fourteen hands 

 in height, and which, to common observers, was not 

 equal to more than half the weight. Was a thirty 

 stone plate to be ran for, at twenty mile heats, the 

 prize would be carried off by thorough-bred horses, 

 of which we have always in this country possessed 

 some of great size and powers. I was not, however, 

 aware that the power of standing under the greatest 

 weight, between the racer and the common horse, 

 had ever been actually put to the test, until I lately 

 read the following curious evidence of the fact 

 in a letter from the Rev. William Chafin to a 

 friend : — 



" Captain Vernon, some time after Amelia was out 



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