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.with an Abftraft of what he wrote on this Subject, 

 with fome Remarks of his own ; which the Reader 

 will find diftinguifh'd by this Mark ( c ) in the Margin, 

 The belt Horfe for a Stallion is a good and beauti- 

 ful Barb, or Spanilh Horfe, free from thofe Infirmi- 

 ties which are called Hereditary, fuch as weak Eyes, 

 Spavins, Purfinefs, Cheft- found 'ring •, as alfo bad 

 Feet r with this diftinftion only, that fuch Imperfe* 

 ftions as happen by accident, are not accounted 

 Hereditary. 



c That which I have to fay againft the Spanifo 

 c Horfe is, that they beget Colts of a lefs fize than 

 c themfelves • neither do the Mares hold fo eafily to 

 c them as to the Barbs : For of ten Mares cover'd 

 c with a Spanijh Horfe, the one half will not be with 

 c Foal, whereas they hold fooner to the Barbs, if 

 c the Stallions be fix Years old *, for being younger 

 c they deceive the Mares. 



I approve not of covering Mares in one's Hand, 

 nor tying them with Ropes : For this Action of Na- 

 ture Ihould be perform'd with Freedom and Love, 

 and not with Reluftancy, and againft their Will. 



Neither do I regard whether the Moon be in her 

 Decreafe or Increafe, or if the other Celeftial Bodies 

 be in fuch or fuch a Conjunction, as if Colts were to 

 be begotten by Aftronorny. 



Nature is moft wife in her own Works ; amongffc 

 which, the greateft is the Aft of Generation, where- 

 by (lie preferves each Species to continue it to the 

 end of the World : And we fee that this wife Na- 

 ture isfocircumfpeft in this Aftion, that although 

 (he fuffer two different kinds to mix by Generation, 

 yet that which proceeds therefrom doth not after- 

 wards generate \ becaufe, were it other wife, each 

 true kind or Species would in time be loft. Let us 

 therefore follow herein the Laws of Nature, who is 

 molt wife in the Aft of Generation. 



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