loo GREASE. 



barkation in this treatife, have totally d\(^ 

 claimed the very idea of implicit obedience to 

 the didation of thole who have preceded me 

 on the fubjedl, I now come to the declaration 

 of an opinion diredly oppoiite to what we have 

 jufi: quoted; and (as no bad prelude to what 

 is to follow) wreft the attention of the reader 

 to the following circumft^nce wxll worthy of 

 note. — That the horfes having the mod re- 

 gular and temperate exercife, food, air, and 

 water, are the very fubje<cts that are in gene- 

 ral more feverely afHided with this difeafe than 

 any other, no one will attempt to difprove. 

 For inlT:ance, thofe paffing under the denomina- 

 tion of' cart horfes/' employed in teams, agri- 

 culture, road waggons, &c. ; and this cir- 

 cumftance alone, if unaffifted with other tefti- 

 mony, would very much v^arp the opinion 

 before-mentioned, and prove both the vefTels 

 and circulation to be lefs culpable in this bufi- 

 nefs than that writer feemed to imagine. 



It is a circumftance known to the mofl: fuper- 

 ficial obferver, that enormous quantities of hair 

 are permitted to remain upon the heels of 

 draft horfes of the above defcription without 

 exception 5 and it is in vain to expoftulate upon 



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