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he sprang to his feet and recommenced the 

 never-ending strife. 



This contest between the god, and the mor- 

 tal born of earth and sea, is the poetical type 

 of the unceasing toil of man in the Valley of 

 the Nile, against the sandy waves of the Ly- 

 bian desert, always encroaching upon the cul- 

 tivated soil, and demanding year by year new 

 exertions to repress their advance. 



So, in our attempt to establish a better sys- 

 tem of utilizing the powers of the horse in the 

 service of man, we have each day to meet the 

 same enemy, renewed by contact with the 

 sources that foster and reinforce ignorance. 

 But as persistent labor conducted the benefi- 

 cent waters of the Nile in irrigating channels 

 through the arid plain of the desert, until 

 upon the inhospitable edge gardens bloomed, 

 fields of grain waved in the breeze, and the 

 date-palm cast its grateful shade upon the 

 husbandman so we make healthful progress, 

 and enjoy a widely increasing triple reward 

 first, in the thankful esteem of our fellow men; 

 secondly, in the relief we afford to a noble 

 animal ; and last, in the substantial return 



