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Are thofe fmall fwellings or tumours form- 

 ed on the fides, or fome part of the back of a 

 horfe, either by the excefiive heat and fridion 

 in a long chafe, the extreme preffure of fome 

 hard or protuberant part in the (luffing of the 

 faddle, or the edge of a narrow faddle cloth 

 coming diredly under the feat of the rider; 

 and very frequently by the cent, per cent, care 

 and caution of the fiddler, in the economical 

 length of his girths; for, being fometimes by 

 much too fhort, the buckles at either one fide 

 or the other fit be.'ovv the pad; or what is ftill 

 worfe, half on and half off; by which means 

 the lower corners of the buckles conftitute this 

 inconvenience to a certainty, as I have repeat- 

 edly experienced. But let them proceed from 

 which of thefe caufes they may, I fhall in the 

 cure pafs over the sublimit v of Capt. 

 Burdon's fertile invention of the '* hot greafy 

 " difhclout," as unneceflary; alfoBARTLEx's 

 fervility and Jierility in echoing fo greasy 

 an- idea ; but as every extenfive reader upon 

 this fubjed mufl: have obferved *' A Pradical 



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