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gaged, when the nag commenced to back toward the sea. Whip and 

 spur were tried to no purpose. The impulse could not be checked or 

 altered ; and the writer's friend, perceiving his danger, had barely time 

 to throw himself out of the saddle, when the horse toppled over the cliff, 

 and was discovered a mangled mass on the following morning. 



The various aspects which disease can assume, of course are multiform, 

 and unfortunately these, when exhibited by the horse, are all exposed to 

 the arbitrary conclusions of prejudice. Men of education appear, in all 

 that concerns the stable, to passively resign their intellects into the 

 hands of the groom, and to be swayed by the hardihood of assertion, or 

 to be ruled jpy the conjectures of selfishness. Thus the declarations, of 

 morbid sensibility are accepted and spoken of as the antics of the 

 "rankest vice," "Jibbing" has been punished as the instigation of 

 malice ; the chastisement has been inflicted without mercy, and has con- 

 tinued for many ages ; but cruelty has not been able to check the exhibi- 



