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fluid is loft by this opening inftead of going to 

 the mouth, and deftroys the horfe. 



Error VI. 



There are fome who take out the lampas -, I 

 have feen a horfe who bled to death after this 

 operation, for they were never able to ftop the 

 blood. 



They perform this operation under a notion 

 that this produ6lion of the roof of the mouth 

 is preternatural ; they burn out one or two of 

 the ridges of the roof, which they call the bean 

 or lampas, with a red-hot iron, and confequent- 

 ly make a fore upon the part. 



It muft therefore be obferved, that it is a ge- 

 neral rule that all young horfcs have their 

 mouths more or lefs full of what are called 

 lampas ^ and fometimes they rife higher than 

 the fore-teeth ♦, now in proportion as a horfe 

 grows older, the roof flattens of itfelf, and the 

 teeth then appear to rife. 



Error VII. 



Some horfes fall off their fl:omachs, and it is 

 pretended their lofs of appetite is caufed by 

 fome teeth grown above the reft, but this is a 

 meer imagination ; for 1 have feen many horfes 

 who had fome of their teeth confiderably higher 

 than others, and yet chewed their aliment the 



better. 



