388 Hardihood and sufferings of a Bull, 



two quarts. Some grass was given him ; but he ate 

 as sparingly as he drank. Next day he could walk a 

 little ; and in two weeks he could go with the rest of 

 the cattle. The next season he was fattened, and 

 weighed near a thousand weight. 



If you think the above statement worth publishing, 

 you are at perfect liberty to do so ; as the fact can be 

 attested by a number of witnesses.^ 



I am your's, &c. 



George W. Holstein. 

 Richard Peters, Es(^. 



* Our correspondent has not mentioned the state of the bull, as 

 to fatness, before falling into the pit. Many authorities could be 

 cited, to show, that an animal will live, or linger, without food, 

 for times proportioned to its fatness, or the contrary. No doubt 

 the animal, respecting which this extraordinary anecdote is related, 

 must have been in high order, as to fatness. 



See Vol. II. " high estimation of broad tailed shceji.'^* v, vi. cites 

 Scheuzer. Physica Sacra, Tom. 1, pag. 231. Ubriy 1731. 



The writer of the foregoing letter is a person of the most unim- 

 peachable character. The fact he relates can be attested by multi- 

 tudes of people, who were eye witnesses. On inquiry I found the 

 bull was fat, precedent to his falling into the pit. R. Peters. 



