42 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



the mod emulous and enterprizing people 

 upon earth. A country and a people, which, 

 under the cheering aufpices of liberty, muft 

 infallibly excel in all things. The Republic 

 has already begun to cultivate the arts and 

 fciences in the mod effectual manner, by the 

 eftablimment of a new academy upon a grand 

 and extenfive national plan. Veterinary 

 fcience occupies a place in the htft clafs. The 

 following citizens, namely, Thouin, Gilbert, 

 Teffier, Cels, Parmentier, Huzard, are ap- 

 pointed residentiary members. Huzard pub- 

 limed, laft year, a ufeful little tract on the pre- 

 vention of the glanders. 



Charles Vial de Saint Bel, died in the year 

 1793, in the profeflbrfhip at the London Vete- 

 rinary College, to which he was introduced by 

 the favour of two noble Earls; and which 

 office he filled, much to his own reputation, 

 and to the fatisfaction of his noble patrons, 

 and all concerned in that truly ufeful and 

 patriotic inftitution. Mr. St. Bel's works have 

 been collected, and publifhed in an Englifh 

 drefs, for the benefit of his widow. They 

 contain much to intereft every proprietor of 

 Horfes; but the chief novelty in the collection, 

 is, the effay on the geometrical proportions of 

 the famous racer Eclipfe. The reader may, if 

 he pleafe, fmile, and quote the father of bur- 



lefque poefy — 



As 



