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or fix weeks, all which time the rowels, or mofl: 

 of them, were running. An opening diet, and 

 a little falts with walking exercife. After a 

 week the inflammation gradually fubfided, but 

 there were no figns of returning fight, till the 

 end of a month or five weeks ; when we were 

 indulged v/nh ho'pe one day, and driven to 

 defpair the next ; in fhort, the jokers were bufy, 

 but I was determined to perfevere. We were 

 foon after agreeably furprized with confiderable 

 amendment in one eye, and in a week or two 

 more, the mare could endure the light with 

 both, and faw very clearly ; there fl;ill however 

 remained a blue cloudinefs, which was not dif- 

 perfed until fome months afterwards. The 

 poultices v/ere difcontinued, but the eyes were 

 {lri6lly guarded from the light by the ho6d 

 before-mentioned, the eye-holes being filled 

 with foft leather ; nor did I expofe t^e eyes to 

 the light for near two months after the return 

 of fight, riding the mare blinded. After the 

 poultices, aqua-vegeto was ufed twice a day. 

 Salts, and a (liort courfe of cinnabar in cordial 

 ball. I highly enjoyed the firft little journey I 

 rode without the blinds, the animal fiopping a 

 great number of times upon the road, to ex- 

 amine different obje6ls, with as much curiofity 

 as if file had entered upon a new world. Her 

 eyes remained perfett until her death, M'hich 

 happened fix years afterwards from an apoplec- 

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