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When completed, I shall probably resume my description of 
this rare animal. > 
At present 1 conclude with an amusing extract from Griffith’s 
“ Animal Kingdom/ 7 vol. iv, p. 151. 
“Pliny, AElian, and Strabo, have noticed the animal, but the 
first satisfactory description is to be found in the Aithiopica ol 
lleliodorus, Bishop of Tricca. ‘The ambassadors/ he says, ‘of 
Axeomita (Abyssinia) brought presents to Hydaspes, and among 
other things, there was an animal, of a strange and wonderful 
species, about the size of a camel, which had its skin marked 
with florid spots; the hinder parts of the loins were low, like 
those of a lion, but the shoulders, fore-feet, and breast, were ele¬ 
vated above proportion to the other parts : the neck was small, 
and lengthened out from its large body, like that of a swan ; the 
head in form resembled a camel’s, but was in size about twice 
that of a Lybian ostrich, and it rolled its eyes, which had a film 
over them, very frightfully. It differed in gait from every other 
land or water animal, and waddled in a remarkable manner; 
each leg did not move alternately, but those on the right side 
moved together, independently of the other, and those of the left 
in the same manner, so that each side was alternately elevated. 
The animal was so tractable as to be led by a small string- 
fastened to the head, and the keeper could conduct it wherever he 
pleased, as if with the strongest chain. When it appeared, it 
struck the whole multitude with terror ; and it took its name from 
the principal parts of its body, being called by the people, ex¬ 
tempore, Camelopardalis/ ” 
THE VETERINARIAN , APRIL 1 , 1830 . 
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Ne quid falsi diccre audeat, ne quid vcri non audcat.— Cicero. 
Connected with the subject of soundness, which neither we 
nor our correspondents have yet abandoned, the following account 
of the law of the case, and of the sale and warranty of horses ge¬ 
nerally, is so much to the purpose, and so pithy, that we are con¬ 
vinced it will be acceptable to our readers. We extract it from 
the “ Law Magazine, October 1828.” 
“ Lawsuits, it has been justly remarked, originate less fre¬ 
quently in the positive dishonesty and bad faith of the litigants, 
than in their gross misconception of each other s rights and liabi- 
