TACHYHIPPODAMIA. 



In the year 1811, whilst residing in Georgia, I 

 read an account of a man who lived more than a 

 hundred years ago, who would take any wild horse, 

 and shut himself up with him in a small yard or 

 stable, and at the end of a few hours, come out 

 with the horse perfectly gentle. Nothing was ever 

 known about the means he employed in gentling 

 him, for he died without ever communicating his 

 secret to any one. I always possessed a great 

 share of curiosity : therefore, as well to gratify it 

 as to become useful to myself and others, I made 

 a great many experiments upon young horses, but 

 without success. I ran great risks in these experi- 

 ments, but the danger, far from discouraging me, 

 animated me the more to make new trials. At 



the end of the year 1811, I came to Louisiana, 

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