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numbers of The Veterinarian of this year, and in which we 
quoted the opinion of Mr. Saull, that, in the northern and 
southern hemisphere there has been an alternate increase and 
diminution of waters in successive periods of 25,800years, corre- 
sponding with the cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, and re- 
sulting from the same cause, viz., a perpetual change in the 
situation of the earth’s poles. Mr. Bellamy appears perfectly 
aware that the climate of England, at the period when these fero- 
cious animals existed here, must have been widely different from 
the present ; but he leaves the question where he found it. We 
refer him to Mr. Saull’s pamphlet. 
We conclude our review by recommending the perusal of Mr. 
Bellamy’s book to all those who wish to become acquainted with 
“ Lovely Devonia, land of flowers and song !” 
who would learn the physical history of her granitic tors and 
grequacke hills, her fossiliferous slates and breccial caves ; for 
here Nature unfolds “ her hoarded poetry and her hidden spells.” 
K. 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Cripps v . Smyth. 
[This trial is inserted, not in illustration of any case of veteri- 
nary practice, but for a reason which will presently be ap- 
parent. — Y.] 
It was an action to recover the amount of a bill of exchange 
for £150, the price of a horse. The bill was produced ; proof 
was given of directions to send the horse from Limerick to 
Manchester, and of the horse being forwarded agreeably to the 
order. 
The plaintiff was one of the aldermen of Limerick ; the de- 
fendant was a captain in the 6th Carabineers. The horse was 
soon returned from Manchester as being unsound, and when the 
bill became due payment of it was refused on account of this 
alleged unsoundness. 
These facts having been proved, the counsel for the defendant 
indulged in some comparatively harmless, and yet, perhaps, not 
quite justifiable pleasantry, with regard to the double function 
which the plaintiff seemed to discharge ; viz,, that of alderman 
