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HORSEMANSHIP. IO5 



1814 — contintied. 



pigeons in hard weather, and all water-fowl in 

 any weather ; To approach a red deer, in the 

 Highlands of Scotland, within 30 or 40 yards ; Of 

 running horses ; Training and breeding young 

 colts ; Cure for bullocks and cows swelled from 

 eating clover ; Cure for the scurvy ; To shoot 

 wild-fowl, pewits, golden plover, wild geese, and 

 bustards by night ; Remarks on the rifle bench, 

 which gunmakers use ; their secrecy and folly in 

 that respect truly laughable ; To save the life of 

 a dog when it has taken poison ; With several 

 valuable family receipts. To which is added a 

 Plan for training and disciplining a corps, such as 

 never yet has appeared in any army of Europe, 

 armed with a peculiar and superior gun, which 

 will shoot, with the precision of a rifle, one third 

 further than any rifle hitherto used on service ; 

 and can also be loaded with cartridges, and fired, 

 as quick as a common Musket. London. 18 14. 



8vo. 226 pp., and a folding frontispiece, representing 

 the Author mounted on a mule, by Reinagle. 

 M., 81 in. by 5^ in. 



Dedicated to Thomas Coke, Esq. 



1815. 



An Essay on the bots of horses and other animals. 



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