202 ON THE HACKNEY AND HUNTER. 



fomewhat below it, of the fpeedy cut, which h 

 occahoned by flrokes of the hoof in going. 

 If the wounds have been healed, an excref- 

 cence will be dillinguifhed by the finger, or 

 the hair will appear to flare. Trembling 

 knees denote injury, from excefs of labour, 

 which is generally without remedy. Osletts, 

 are long excrefcences fituated under the knee, 

 on the infide, and fometimes contract, the 

 joint. Splents are of the fame nature; their 

 place is upon the (hank ; they are fufficiently 

 palpable, either to fight or feeling, but of no 

 detriment, when they do not interfere with 

 the finews. They feldom increafe in fize, after 

 fix years old. When they are fo placed, as to 

 contract, the finews, it is much the cheapen, 

 and fafeft way, to deem them incurable. 



If the legs be round and flefhy, and no 

 preternatural heat, or extraordinary pulfation 

 is to be difcovered in them, by handling, it 

 may be their natural fhape. They will be 

 fubjeft to greafe and fcratches, and belong to 

 a horfe of inferior kind. A good flat leg may 

 have become round, hot, and fwelled, either 

 by over-work, or the want of it, and from 

 flanding week after week, tied up in a hot 

 liable. The horfe may fhift and change his 

 feet, from the pain in his legs, and yet the main 

 fmew may not have fuhained any material 

 injury; for when that lias really happened, he 



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