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my expectation. To avoid troubling tlie 

 reader with tedious or unnecessary quota- 

 tions, I shall let it suffice to introduce such 

 abbreviations only as become perfectly ap- 

 plicable to our future remarks upon the sub- 

 ject before us. 



Bracken justly observes, *' Roweliing is 

 the coiiimon resource of Farriers in general ; 

 amongst whom, he could never find one that 

 could give a satisfactory account of the use 

 or abuse : but they all tell you, a rowel is to 

 Jrav/ off the bad or conupt liumours from 

 the blood ; and this is to cure almost every 

 disorder, according to their way of reason- 

 ing.'' This assertion is so strictly true, that 

 I v/ill cheerfully consent to its confii'mation, 

 upon the experimental inquiries of the last 

 twenty years ; and declare I never could 

 acquire fiom the Vulcanian professors, a more 

 technical or enlightened description of the 

 OPERATIVE EFFECTS, than the ''poor epi-- 

 tome' he acknowledges to have received. 



In this communication there is nothing- 

 very extraordinary ; but it is not so in what 

 is to follow, andis worthy observation. In the 

 same page, and almost the next line, he tells 



