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CHAP. XXXVI. 



ON THE SHAPES OF STALLIONS, MARES, AND 

 GELDINGS. 



ALL male animals are more robust In their 

 form than the female. StaUions, bulls, rams, 

 boars, &c. exhibit a m.ore muscular figure than 

 if submitted to castration. The juices in those 

 animals being stronger, tend to swell their 

 muscles, and give them the masculine appear- 

 ance which is peculiar to them. In countries 

 where the inhabitants do not castrate their 

 male sheep, bulls, swine, buffaloes, &c. the 

 flesh is intolerably rank, and unsavoury to the 

 taste. 



Horses, after undergoing this process, be- 

 come lighter, and finer in their shapes, and are 

 not so much loaded with flesh and large mus- 

 cles about the forehand and chest, but have 

 more the figure and shape of the female 5 and 



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