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mult of arms, and attacks the enemy with refolution and alacrity. 

 It is not in perils and conHids alone that the horfe co-operates with 

 the difpofitions of his mafter. He even feeras to participate of hu- 

 man pleafures and amufements. He delights in the chace and the 

 tournarrvent, and his eyes fparkle with emulation in the courf&. 

 Though bold and intrepid, however, he does not allow himfelf to 

 be hurried on by a furious ardour. On proper occafions, he repref- 

 fes his movements, and knows how to check the natural fire of his 

 temper. He not only yields to the hand, but feems to confult the 

 inclination of his rider. Always obedient to the impreffions he re- 

 ceives, he flies or flops, and regulates his motions folely by the will 

 of his mafter. 



Mr Ray, who wrote about the end of laft century, informs us> 

 that he had feen a horfe who danced to mufic, who, at the com- 

 mand of his mafter, affeded to be lame, who fimulated death, lay 

 motionlefs with his limbs extended, and allowed himfelf to be drag- 

 ged about, till fome words were pronounced, when he inftantly 

 fprung up on his feet *. Fads of this kind would fcarcely receive 

 credit, if every perfon were not now acquainted with the wonder- 

 ful docility of the horfes educated by Aftley, and other public exhi- 

 bitors of horfemanftiip. In exhibitions of this kind, the docility 

 and prompt obedience of the animals deferve more admiration than, 

 the dexterous feats of the men. 



Animals of the ox-kind', in a domeft'Ic ftate, are dull and phlegmatic. 

 Their fenfibility and' talents feem to be very limited. But we fliould 

 not pronounce raflily concerning the genius and powers of animal's 

 in a country where their education is totally negleded. In all the 

 fouthern provinces of Africa and Afia, there are many wild bifons, 



or 



• Rail SynopGs Anitnalium Quadrupedum, pag. lo. 



