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and then they shoot. Of his total incapacity to get up such a book as 

 as this professes to be, we have already given numerous instances ; 

 but, we will take the trouble of adding a few others. At p. 474, he 

 tells us that farriers call the operation of making a seton, rorvelling. 

 Now the commonest farrier is perfectly aware of the difference ; so 

 might Mr. Gullet have been, had he condescended to read what he 

 has cut out for his own abortion, from the volumes published by 

 White, of Exeter. We quote them as they appear in " The Field 

 Book", under the respective heads of " Seton " and " Rowel." 



"Rowels are seldom so convenient or so useful as setons. They are 

 formed by making an incision in the skin, where it is rather loose, as in the 

 chest, about an inch in length. This being done, the finger is to be intro- 

 duced, or an instrument called a cornet, that is, the crooked end of a small 

 horn made for the purpose, and the skin separated from the parts underneath 

 all around for the space of about an inch. Into the cavity thus made a round 

 piece of leather, with a hole in the middle, wrapped in tow and smeared with 

 digestive ointment, is to be introduced. The orifice in the skin is then to be 

 plugged up with tow, and kept there until suppuration takes place, that is, 

 four or five days. The tow is then to be taken out, when a great deal of 

 matter will flow from the orifice. The rowel is afterwards to be moved daily 

 and kept clean." White. 



" Setons consist of tape, threads, or lamp cotton passed under the skin, and 

 smeared with digestive ointment. The instrument employed for conveying 

 these under the skin is named a seton needle, and may be purchased at the 

 instrument makers. When lamp-cotton is used, it can be withdrawn gra- 

 dually, thread by thread, which on some occasions is desirable. Setons are 

 preferable to rowels, being more convenient and equally efficacious." White. 



The reader will see, that even according to Mr. Gullet's own quo- 

 tations, although their object is nearly the same, no two operations 

 can be much more dissimilar. 



In doing this book, Mr. Gullet has gone to a few obvious, and 

 popular sources of reformation : of many of the best writers on the 

 subject of British sports and pastimes, he is evidently ignorant. To 

 Mowbray, Jesse, White, Blaine, and Hawker, he expresses his obliga- 

 tions; but steals wholesale from Lawrence's work on "The Horse" with- 

 out even once mentioning the name of that talented veteran. In his in- 

 troduction, he complains of such writers as have adopted every thing, 

 good and bad, from certain originals, without a single addition of their 

 own, and dosed the public, ad nauseam revending the same wares 

 again and again. This is precisely what Mr. Gullet himself has done : 

 except, as may be seen in the extracted specimens, that he sometimes 

 gives us additions of his own, which are not only worthless, but 

 incorrect, and eminently ridiculous. A more contemptible compilation 

 has never been presented to the public. It is offensively tumid, 

 and yet singularly meagre. Ignorance and poverty of research are 

 apparent in every page. " Carniverous" is thus explained : " flesh- 

 eating ; a term applied to birds and animals (as though birds were 

 not animals!)" Then follows an extract from Bewick about car- 

 niverous birds, but no information whatever is afforded as to carni- 

 verous beasts, or fishes, or reptiles, or insects. The extracts, as they 

 appear, are totally destitute of authority for Mr. Gullet lumps them 



