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64 kirby’s wonderful museum.
faction. The jury consulted for some time, and agreed to
return the following verdict. “ The death of the deceased was
produced by excessive fright.” Times, August 21, 1818.
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CAVERNS NEAR LAKE ONTARIO.
We are informed, says the Northern Whig, by a gentle-
man from Sackett’s Harbour, that a very remarkable cavern
has lately been discovered near that place, on the shore of
Lake Ontario. Our informant, in company with five others,
descended about thirty feet, and proceeded more than half a
mile through various apartments, wonderfully wrought by
nature, some of which were ten feet high, and others barely
sufficient to pass with difficulty. Through inattention, the
torches with which they descended, went out, and the com-
pany remained in despair, momently expecting to perish, for
five hours ; when a person left at the entrance, alarmed at
their long absence, entered with a few neighbours, and res-
cued them from destruction. The air of the cavern was
very impure, and respiration extremely difficult.
Courier, August 5, 1815.
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A REMARKABLE SMALL HORSE
IN INDIA.
Lieut.-Colonel Fitzclarence, in his Journal of a
Route across India, through Egypt to England, page 112,
says-
“ On the army taking possession of Nagpoor, our princi-
pal inducement for visiting the stable was the fame of a
little horse, four years old, and only thirty-three inches high.
This diminutive creature was, I think, the most beautiful
model of a horse in miniature I ever saw. It was very
playful, perhaps vicious; and when I stood across it on tiptoe,
it attacked my knees on its sides, striving to bite them.”
faction. The jury consulted for some time, and agreed to
return the following verdict. “ The death of the deceased was
produced by excessive fright.” Times, August 21, 1818.
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/
CAVERNS NEAR LAKE ONTARIO.
We are informed, says the Northern Whig, by a gentle-
man from Sackett’s Harbour, that a very remarkable cavern
has lately been discovered near that place, on the shore of
Lake Ontario. Our informant, in company with five others,
descended about thirty feet, and proceeded more than half a
mile through various apartments, wonderfully wrought by
nature, some of which were ten feet high, and others barely
sufficient to pass with difficulty. Through inattention, the
torches with which they descended, went out, and the com-
pany remained in despair, momently expecting to perish, for
five hours ; when a person left at the entrance, alarmed at
their long absence, entered with a few neighbours, and res-
cued them from destruction. The air of the cavern was
very impure, and respiration extremely difficult.
Courier, August 5, 1815.
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A REMARKABLE SMALL HORSE
IN INDIA.
Lieut.-Colonel Fitzclarence, in his Journal of a
Route across India, through Egypt to England, page 112,
says-
“ On the army taking possession of Nagpoor, our princi-
pal inducement for visiting the stable was the fame of a
little horse, four years old, and only thirty-three inches high.
This diminutive creature was, I think, the most beautiful
model of a horse in miniature I ever saw. It was very
playful, perhaps vicious; and when I stood across it on tiptoe,
it attacked my knees on its sides, striving to bite them.”