THE WILD HORSE.
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The following sketch is from the Rev. t..
Flint's new work, "Francis Berrian," and is
descriptive of the innumerable hordes of wild
horseswhich are sometimes met in the prai-
ries near the Rocky Mountains.


"1'he day before we came in view OF the
Rocky Mountains, saw in the greatest per-
fectjon, that impressive, and to me almost
sublime spectacle, an immense drove OF wild
horses for long time lowering round our
nath across the prairie. I had often seen
great numbers of them before. mixed with
other animals, apparently quiet, and grazing
like the rest. Here there we're thousands
unmixed unemployed; their motions. it such
a comparison might be allowed, as darting
and as wild as those of humming birds on
the flowers. The tremendous snorts with
which the front columns of the phalanx made
known their approach to us, seemed 10 oe
their wild and energetic way of expressing
their pity and disdain for the scrvile lot OF
our horses, of which they appeared to De
taking a survey, They were OF all colours
mixed, spotted, and diversified with every
hue from the brightest white to clear and
shining black; and of every form and struct-
ure, from the long g-and slender racer, TO those
of firmcr limbs and heavier mould; and OF all
ages, from the curveting colt to the range
of patriarchal, Steeds, drawn up in line,
and holding thNr high heads for survey OF
us, in the rear. Sometimes they curved
their necks, and made no more progress than
just enough to keep pace with our advance
Then there was a kind of slow and walking
u.fnuet, in which they performed various ev.,
olutions with the precision OF the figures Of
a country dance. Then rapid movement
shifted the front to the rear. But still, in all
their evolutions and movements, like the
fight of sea-fowl, their lines were regular
and free from all confusion. At times spon-
taneous and sudden movement towards us,
ai-uost insn;red ,rs. with the apprehension o1