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mod eminent : the plates of the latter are beau- 

 tifully and fkilfully coloured. I cannot help 

 flopping by the way a moment, to relate a 

 little anecdote which bears relation to Stubbs, 

 whofe great merit as an artifl I highly refpeft, 

 although I know not the man. A few years 

 fince, this famous painter prefented, at the an- 

 nual exhibition, a pifture of bulls fighting : this 

 the critics condemned as tame and fpiritlefs, 

 becaufe the animals were not reprefented with 

 all the fiery and a6live ferocity of tygers or ftal- 

 lions ; the truth is, the pifture is the juftefl and 

 moft natural reprefentation of a combat be- 

 tween thofe fedate and heavy animals, the bulls, 

 which is anywhere to be found on canvass, and 

 which the painter had often feen in nature — his 

 critics never. 



Thera are many cafes in which it might be 

 advantageous to all parties, for a farrier to aft 

 under the directions of a medical gentleman ; 

 farther, a medical man, either of town or coun- 

 try, defirous, but unable from various caufes 

 to pay a ftrift perfonal attention to veterinary 

 praftice, might, with advantage, retain a farrier 

 of experience for that purpofe. I have often 

 thought that a horfe-furgeon, fituated within 

 ten or twelve miles of London, where good 

 paltures and convenient ftraw-yards were to be 

 had, and whither, greafed, worn-down, and foul 

 draught-horfes, might be fent at a moderate ex- 



, pence. 



