EXERCISE. :ii3 



perimental pradice, the lefs reafon I find to 

 be fatisfied with what they ventured to 

 promulgate ; particularly upon the fubjeft 

 of humours ; which in all my inquiries and 

 minute inveftigations, I could never find 

 fyfi:emically explained, at leaft to encoun- 

 ter the e)''e of profeflional infpeftion. 



Bracken, who for years was confidered 

 as a prodigy of V e t e r i n a r i a n inflrudion , 

 after condemning the farriers frequent ufc 

 and the convenient fubterfuge of the word, 

 makes many eflforts to go through an elabo- 

 rate explanation, that, he lays, '* the igno- 

 rance and ftupidity of the vulgar are inade- 

 quate to ;" but very unluckily, after attackr 

 ing the fubjeft in nin^ differ e?it ways, at leali 

 in as many different places, he as repeatedly 

 digreffes from the point, without ever coming 

 into the probability of an explanatory con- 

 clufion, 



Bart LET, in his ufual condefcending 

 ftile of imitation, (or rather compilation) 

 affords Jix pages of duodecimo, replete with 

 technical abftrufity, collefted from the re- 

 niote allufions and eccentric remarks of hi§ 



P 3 learned 



