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William Legg Henderson journal #07, May 15 - June 7, 1865
Page 11 1865-05-24
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11 amidst their Commodities on a vehicle not unlike the Donkey fish carts seen in the sea port Cities of Europe, while the whole receives locomotion from an animal which has neither the tractable Duality of the Horse, nor the native stuborness of the ass but made up by a combination of the bad qualities of both and these mules are nearly Destitute of flesh, which gives them the appearance, (of the representation made by Geo [-biguls?]) of extinct species of animals that existed long antecedent to the period when man was Cast by lifes Tempestious billows on the shores of time. "How have the mighty fallen".
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11 amidst their Commodities on a vehicle not unlike the Donkey fish carts seen in the sea port Cities of Europe, while the whole receives locomotion from an animal which has neither the tractable Duality of the Horse, nor the native stuborness of the ass but made up by a combination of the bad qualities of both and these mules are nearly Destitute of flesh, which gives them the appearance, (of the representation made by Geo [-biguls?]) of extinct species of animals that existed long antecedent to the period when man was Cast by lifes Tempestious billows on the shores of time. "How have the mighty fallen".
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