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were protracted, or he was dashed against a rock at 

 the commencement of the horrible race, was never 

 known ; but the wild animal, frenzied and blinded by 

 terror, rushed over a beetling cliff, at a considerable 

 distance, overhanging the sea-shore, and the hunter 

 and the horse were found at the bottom, a misshapen 

 semblance of what they had been when living." 



