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them alfo to cut off their ears. I fpeak not 

 of low grooms, and jockies ; we have lately 

 feen the ftuds of men of the firft fafhion, 

 mifled probably by grooms, and jockies, pro- 

 ducing only cropt-horfes. 



When a fine horfe has wide, lopping ears, 

 as he fometimes has, without fpring, or 

 motion in them; a man may be tempted to 

 remove the deformity. But to cut a pair of 

 fine ears out of the head of a horfe, is, if pof- 

 fible, a ftill greater abfurdity, than to cut off 

 his tail. Nothing can be alledged in it's 

 defence. The ear neither retards motion ; 

 nor flings dirt. 



Much of the fame ground may be gone over 

 on this fubjecl:, which we went over on the 

 laft. With regard to the utility of the ear, it 

 is not improbable, that cropping it may injure 

 the horfe's hearing : there is certainly lefs 

 concave furface to receive the vibrations of 



the air. 1 have heard it alfo averted with 



great confidence, that this mutilation injures 

 his health : for when a horfe has loft that 

 pent-houfe, which nature has given him over 

 his ear, it is reafonable to believe that wind, 

 and rain may get in, and give him cold. 



Hail, 



