i^- The Anatomy ^/ ^ H O R S E. Chap. I. 



CHAP. I. 



Of the Parts which inveft and cover the whok 

 Body. 



§. I. Of the Hair^ Scarfskifiy Hide^ and Flejhy Panicle, 



The Hair. T ^ ^efcribing the Parts of a Horfe, the 



firft Thing that prefents to our View, is 

 the Hair^ which may not improperly be called the upper- 

 molt Cover of the whole Body. It will be very little to our 

 purpofe to fpend time about its Produdion, or how it 

 comes to be of fo many different Colours; I fhall therefore 

 proceed to obferve, that the Hair is both an Ornament and 

 a Defence to all Animals. That which we call his Coat, 

 IS not only agreeable to the Ey« in a plump young Horfe, 

 but a Defence from the Injuries of Cold and Heat, and the 

 Accidents to which he would be often expos'd, in his feed- 

 mg among Shru.bs and Bufhes; and that which grows 

 out to fome length on the Footlock, is a no lefs Defence 

 to that prominent Part, when he travels on ftony Ways, or 

 in frofty Weather, when the Roads are crufted, which 

 otherwife would be very much expos'd to Wounds and 

 Bruifes. As for the Main, Tail, and Foretop, they add 

 greatly to the Beauty of a Horfe, and are a fuitable De- 

 corement to a Creature of fo much Fire and Mettle. 

 The Cuticula, "^^^^ ^^^ ^^^7 Tegument, or Cover, is 



or Scar/skiti, the Scarfskin^ and is that which rifes fo 

 eafily into a Blifter, by being pinch'd or 

 fcalded ; it is not endued with any tender Senfation, but 

 •will bear the Touch without Pain ; it is produced from 

 the Hide, which it involves and covers on all Parts, and 

 has from thence its Nourifhment. Its Ufe is not only to 

 cover the true Skin, and defend it from thofe painful 

 Senfations to which it would be expos'd, as wc daily ob- 

 ferve, when it is fretted off; but as it refembles a curious 

 Net- work, and is full of little Holes or Pores, it is there- 

 by fuited to give way to the excrementitious Matter which 

 continually exhales from the Body. 

 The Hide ^^^ "^^^ cf)mmon Covering is ih^Skin^ 



' (properly fo called) or Hide, which lies im- 



mediately under the other. It is nourifh'd with Veins, Ar- 



teries. 



