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contingencies, that tend to forbid the attempt 

 fairly explained, \?e now come to the crisis 

 of deUvery, or the mare's bringing forth ; an 

 event so wonderfully accomplished by the 

 almost unerring efforts of Nature, that upon 

 the fairest calculation, not one maie in ^ 

 hundred suffers in any respect, more than the 

 temporary disquietude from an exertion of 

 so much magnitude, although in the mo- 

 ments of reflection it absolutely becomes a 

 matter of admiration how the shock is sus- 

 tained, without a much greater frequency of 

 the danger that so seldom ensues. 



Notwithstanding this providential inter- 

 position for the safety of animals so little 

 enabled to relieve themselves, it is worthy 

 remark, that where diiiitulty and danger once 

 occur, the case becoming preternatural, it 

 generally terminates in the death of one or 

 the other, and not unconmionly in the de- 

 struction of both ; this may probably pro- 

 ceed from the construction of parts not being 

 generally understood, and the little chance 

 of assisting nature with the same ease and 

 accuracy as some other parts of tlie crea- 

 tion o 



