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of high-founding termination, and elucidated 

 with geometrical lines, and fcientific a's andb's. 

 There is certainly a particular light in which 

 this author's works are well entitled to notice ; 

 and after fuch a profeflional fufs, who would be 

 fo rafh as to fufpe6l, the man knew nothing at 

 all about the matter ? 



It has been the fafhion with our veterinary 

 writers, to treat the public with after-pieces. 

 Gibfon gave his works to the world, repeated 

 in a variety of forms. Bartlet, after his Gen- 

 tleman's Farriery, publifhed a work intituled, 

 P harmacopoeia Hippiatrica, or the Gentleman 

 Farrier's Repofitory ; to this work I alluded 

 in my Firft Volume, under the name of a 

 Compendium. Wood's Book of Farriery was 

 followed by a Supplement ; and Taplin, in 

 conformity, mull have his Compendium, and 

 his MuLtum in Parvo. In the Compendium, 

 are a few good obfervations, which, had there 

 been public need, a threepenny pamphlet 

 would have contained ; as to the Multum in 

 Parvo, modefty and truth, when they (hall have 

 the honour to be of Mr. Taplin's council, will 

 w^hifper to him " to take dov\^n his multum, 

 •' and let his parvum ftand." 



The Veterinary College has lately adopted a 

 very judicious method of difl'eminaiing the 

 true principles of (hoeing, by erefting forges 

 in different quarters of the Metropolis, where 



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