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Natural History Society, from which I made the draw- 

 ing. The whole of the incisoro are much elongated 

 horizontally, but not perpendicularly elevated more 

 than those of a horse at six years of age. The upper 

 surface of the nippers and dividers are of a quad- 

 rangular form, the inner margins being a little 

 rounded, while the corner teeth are oblone oval, 

 nearly the form of an egg, with the most acute end 

 outwards. The tushes are conical, a little blunted 

 on the crown, and turned backward, with an elon- 

 gated, shallow, curved groove on their inner sides." 

 There is no evidence produced to prove that this 

 horse actually lived seventy-six years, but assuming 

 that he did, it is certainly the longest recorded age 

 of a horse, so far at least as the writer knows. Don- 

 keys are said to live much longer than horses, and 

 singularly few people are to be met with who have 

 actually seen a donkey die from natural causes. 

 Whether this rare experience is attributable to re- 

 markable longevity, or to the now meagre distribu- 

 tion of these frequently well-abused animals in this 

 country, the writer does not venture to say. It has 

 been said of asses that they lost their social status in 

 England at the time of the Reformation. Prior to 

 that era, custom recognised mules as the appropriate 

 mounts of travelling ecclesiastics, even of the highest 

 degree, whilst laymen used horses ; and the disuse 

 of mules by persons of such dignified standing no 

 doubt was partially instrumental in bringing about 

 the gradual cessation of mule-breeding in this country, 



