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he eats the fame food, and in the fame quantity, as commom 

 horfes : he is meagre, as he always had been from the time 

 he was brought to the Veterinary School. He is ftrong and 

 vigorous, trots fomewhat hard on account of his age, and 

 becaufe he has been employed in the draught. He is very 

 fenfible to cold, and therefore during winter is always kept 

 exceedingly warm. His head is fmall and well made, the 

 neck pretty, and the cheft open; his legs, on which he. (lands 

 well, are (lender ; but the red of his body is not fo beautiful, 

 on account of his age and meagre ftate. 



He differs from other horfes onlv in the want of hair, the 

 depreffion of his forehead, aud the noife he makes when 

 breathing. I have carefully obferved all the parts of his 

 bodv, even the interior of the ears, and I have found only a 

 black bridle, about three- tenths of an inch in length, on the 

 lower eye-lid of the left eye. His fkin is of a black colour 

 inclining to gray, with fome white fpots on the flanks and 

 groin. It is plaited on the upper part of the cheft, is very 

 ioft to the touch on the whole body, and has si finning and 

 unctuous appearance. What gives reafon to believe that the 

 want of hair in this animal is neither the effect of art nor the 

 refult of difeafe is, that the fkin on the nofe, around the nof- 

 trils, and on the upper and lower lips, differs from that of 

 other horfes, and has all the characters above indicated : it 

 has almoft all the appearances of that of the Turkifh dog. 

 A very dittinguifhing character is the depreffion in the middle 

 of the forehead, meafuring from the anterior angle of the 

 eyes and the angle of the mouth. This deprefiion, which 

 contracts the aperture formed by the nafal bone, occafions 

 fome embarraffment to the animal in breathing, and at each 

 infpiration and expiration it makes a noife which may be 

 compared to that made by a perfon w r hen the noftrils are 

 obftructed. This noife increafes when the animal has been 

 running, or employed in hard labour. He has, however, 

 ftrong lungs and good wind. 



VI. Defcription of a newly invented Galvanometer, and 

 an Account of fome Experiments made with Volta's. 

 Pile upon fever al of the Gafes. By W. H. PepYs jun t 



Efn.* 



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(JRING a courfe of experiments upon atmofpheric elec-v 

 tricity, with which I occupied myfelf in the year 1798, I 



* Communicated by the author. 



had 



