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contingencies, that tend to forbid the attempt 

 fairly explained, we now come to the crifis 

 of delivery, or the mare*s bringing forth ; an 

 event fo wonderfully accomplifhed by the al- 

 nr.olT: unerring efforts of Nature, that upon 

 the faireft calculation, not one mare in a 

 hundred fuffers in any refped:, more than the 

 temporary difquietude, from an exertion ^f 

 fo much magnitude, although in the moments 

 of refle6tion it abfoluteiy becomes a matter of 

 admiration how the fnock is fuftalned, with- 

 Oui a much greater frequency of the dango: 

 that fo feldom enfues. 



Notwithftanding this providential interpo- 

 fition for the fafety of animals fo little ena- 

 bled to relieve themfelves, it is worthy re- 

 mark, that where difficulty and danger onc^ 

 occur, the cafe becoming preternatural, it 

 generally terminates in the death of one or 

 the other, and not uncommonly in the de- 

 flrudlion of both ; this may probably proceed 

 from the conftrudtion of parts not being ge- 

 nerally underftood, and the little chance of 

 affiiting nature w4th the fame eafe and accu- 

 racy as fome other parts of the creation. 



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