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it, adopted the form of powders ; becaufe, if the horfe 

 refufes them in his food, they can beinfufed in a drench. 

 The mode of giving drenches is fiifficiently known; 

 the tongue being held by the fingers againft the jaw, 

 or within the mouth, fo as to be incapable of pufhing 

 the horn away ; the head is elevated by means of 

 a noofe introduced between the upper tufhes and 

 grinders; when the drink being poured into the 

 mouth, the tongue is liberated, but not the head, 

 which neverthelefs muft not be held too high, or it 

 impedes fwallowing, and difpofes the horfe to refift. 



A bottle is not a fafe vehicle to give a drench 

 from, though it is not an inconvenient one ; for fome- 

 times, in the ftruggles the horfe makes, the neck may 

 be bit or broken off. 



EXERCISE. 



Nothing is fo convincing a proof of the neceffity of 

 exercife to animals, as their love of play in a flate of 

 nature ; from which natural aft we likewife infer, 

 that it is much more necefiary to the young and 

 to the robuft than to the old and weakly: this re- 

 mark fhould influence our domeitic management of 

 horfes, and of dogs likewife. 



Horfes and dogs live a life of art, when they be- 

 come domeflicated ; fome of them more fo than 

 others : a racer and a lady's lap dog are as remote 

 from a natural itate as art can make them. Now# 



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