64 BREEDING. 



Aiofsof 'this deftrlptlon, after a year or 

 more of tedious hope and expcdation, con- 

 fequently produces temporary gloom and fe- 

 lious difappointment ; in fom.e inftances the 

 dam becomes the victim, in others the foal; 

 to the latter there is no palliative, to the 

 former but one alternative : it is a cuftom al- 

 moft univerfal, upon the death of the mare 

 (foon after relief from her burthen) to defpair 

 of fuccefs in raifing the foal by art, and it is 

 frequently difpofed of without delay, that a 

 circumftance fo unlucky may be the fooner 

 erafed from memory and buried in oblivion. 



This hafly decifion is by no means to be 

 commended, although it is almoft generally 

 known the power of inftin6t is fo very pre- 

 dominant in this fpecies, that it mull be a 

 fad: exceedingly rare, to find a mare that will, 

 by whatever llratagem you can put in force, 

 cherifh any other foal than her own ; this 

 moft undoubtedly arifes from their feldom or 

 never producing a plurality of young 2iX. one 

 time ; a, circumftance by no means uncommon 

 "with almoft every other animal in the creation, 

 who are the more eafijy impofed upon to nou- 

 rilh and protcdl a fpurious offspring. 



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