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the tangible objects wliich each vifible one repre-fents. The degree of precihon, however, withwhich the horle is capable of making this didinc-tion, feems at no period of his life to be verycomplete. He is at all times apt to dartle at manyvifible objects , which , if they didinctly fuggeftedto him the real lhape and proportion of the tan-gible objects which they reprefent, could not bethe objects of fear; at the trunk or root of an oldtree, for example, which happens to be laid bythe road fide, at a great Hone, or the fragmentof a rock which happens to lie near the waywhere he is going. To reconcile him, even to alingle object of this kind, which has once alar-med him , frequently requires fome fkill, as wellas much patience and good temper , in the rider.Such powers of fight, however, as Nature hasthought proper to render him capable of acqui-ring, he feems to enjoy from the beginning, inas great perfedlion as he ever does afterwards.

The young of other quadrupeds, like thofe ofthe birds which make their nefls in places of dif-ficult accefs, come blind into the world. Theirfight, however, foon opens, and as foon as itdoes fo, they feem to enjoy it in the moft com-plete perfection, as we may all obferve in thepuppy and the kitten. The fame thing, I believe,may be laid of all other beads of prey, at leadof all thofe concerning wliich I have been able

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to collect any didinct information. They comeblind into the world; but as foon as their fight