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and other Italian anatomifts, in aid of his own 

 practical obfervations. This fyftem has fince 

 been the conflant guide of all our veterinary 

 writers; and is, doubtlefs, a very fufhcient one 

 for any perfon who has been bred to the pro- 

 feffion of furgery, and defires to obtain a know- 

 ledge of hyppiatric anatomy. Snape intended, 

 it feems, to have written a regular treatife on 

 the difeafes of Horfes, but from whatever 

 caufe of difappointment, he publifhed only 

 fome fhort notes, on a few of them. This is 

 to be regretted, if we may judge from his 

 obfervations upon the glanders, and the foun- 

 dered foot, which are in the higheft degree 

 judicious; and prove him to have been far 

 fuperior in rational knowledge to his cotempo- 

 rary veterinarians. The late Edward Snape, 

 farrier to George III. has frequently allured 

 me, that he was lineally defcended from the 

 famous farrier of that name. 



That loyal and illuftrious cavalier, the noble 

 Duke of Neweaflle, the one half (but whether 

 the better, or not, let the ponderous volumes of 

 each decide) of " that (lately pair," in the fame 

 reign, favoured the world with a folio upon 

 the fubjecl of Horfes. There is but little in 

 his Grace's work at all applicable to the pre- 

 fent times, or indeed at all interefting ; unlefs 

 it be his defcriptions of the Horfes of different 

 countries, in which it may be prefumed the 



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