BULL DOG, HORSE. 4D 



THE BULL-DOG. 



THIS is a very fierce, strong, and savage creature, fre- 

 quently seizing or biting without giving any notice of his 

 approach. He is peculiar to this island ; but, since the 

 savage sport of bull-baiting has given way to more refined 

 pastimes, the breed has become scarce. Humanity is almost 

 prompted to indulge a wish that the kind may become utterly 

 extinct. While one of the species remains, it will recall 

 the disgraceful remembrance of vulgar barbarism, and 

 perpetuate the stigma of our once tasteless amusements 

 and cruel manners. 



THE HORSE. 



The various excellencies of this noble animal, the 

 grandeur of his stature, the graceful ease, his strength, 

 the glassy smoothness of his skin, and, above all, his ability, 

 entitle him to a place next to man in the history of the 

 brute creation. 



To form an adequate idea of this noble animal, we must 

 not contemplate him in a domestic state, beautiful as he 

 appears, but in those wild and extensive plains where he 

 ranges without controul, and riots in all the luxury of 

 uncultivated nature; it is here that he appears in his 

 grandeur. 



There are few parts of the world where the horse is not 

 produced. 



In the boundless tracks of Africa or New Spain, where 

 the horse runs at liberty, he seems no way incommoded 

 with the inconveniences to which he is subject in Europe. 

 His enemies of the forest are but few, for none but the 

 greater kinds will venture to attack him ; any one of these 

 he is singly able to overcome, while at the same time he 

 is content to find safety in society ; for the wild horses of 

 those countries always herd together, and are not 

 unfrequently seen feeding in droves of five or six hundred. 

 When they sleep in the forest they have generally one of 

 their number that stands as sentinel, to give notice of any 

 approaching danger, and this they often take in turns. If 



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