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the focket to a great depth ; and farther to defend 

 it, as this is drawn in, a griftly curtain is thrown 

 before the eye. Farriers call this the /law ; and fome 

 of them are ignorant enough, when the eye becomes 

 inflamed, to cut off the prominent parts of it feen at 

 the inner corner of the eye. 



Hearing in quadrupeds is likewife very acute, 

 and their ears are wifely fo formed as to receive a 

 great many founds, and to be able to direft them 

 towards the objects they wifh to attend to : hence 

 their ears are very moveable. TaJHng is effefted by 

 the tongue and parts around. Smelling in quadru- 

 peds is ftill more acute ; and to this end the cavities 

 of the nofe are very large, to enable them to diftin- 

 guifh the properties and qualities of every thing 

 around them. Feeling is univerfally given to every 

 part; but the more immediate organ of perception in 

 the horfe exills in his nofe: in the dog, in his nofe 

 and paws. Quadrupeds are covered with ftrong fub- 

 fiances called //t//i, or integuments : thefe do not dif- 

 fer from thofc of man but in the addition of a large 

 quantity of hair, the various tints of which give the 

 terms of bay, chefnut, black, white, grey, &c., to 

 the horfe ; and yellow, liver, pied, moufe, white, 

 black, &c., to the dog. An animal thus formed, 

 when arrived at maturity, is endowed with a fenfa-' 

 tion morally termed love, and naturally, luft; and 

 for the fultilment of this paflion he is endowed with 



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