loo GREASE. 



embarkation In this treatife, have totally dif- 

 claimed the very idea of implicit obedience to 

 the dictation of thofe who have preceded me 

 on the fubjed, I now come to the declaration 

 of an opinion direftly oppofite to what we have 

 juft quoted, and (as no bad prelude to what 

 is to follow) wreft the attention of the reader 

 to the following circumftance, well worthy of 

 note. — That the horfes having the moft re- 

 gular and temperate exercife, food, air, and 

 water, are the very {ubjtdis that are in gene- 

 ral more feverely afflicted v/ith this difeafe than 

 any other, no one will attempt to difprove. 

 For inftance, thofe paffing under the denomi- 

 nation of " cart horfes," employed in teams, 

 agriculture, road waggons, &c. and this cir- 

 cumftance alone, if unaffifted with other tefti- 

 mony, would very much warp the opinion 

 before-mentioned; and prove both the veflels 

 and circulation to be lefs culpable in this bufi- 

 nefs than that writer feemed to imagine. 



It is a circumftance known to the moft fuper- 

 ficial obferver, that enormous quantities of hair 

 are permitted to remain upon the heels of 

 iiraft horfes of the above difcription, without 

 exception 3 and it is in vain to expoftulate upon 



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