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body, when he trots, and prevents his ftum-. 

 bling. I heard a gentleman, who had travelled 

 much in the eaft, remark, that the Turkifh, 

 and Arabian horfes rarely ftumble -, which he 

 attributed, and with fome appearance of truth, 

 to their long tails. 



But whatever ufe the tail may be to the 

 horfe in aBiojiy .it is acknowleded on all 

 hands to be of infinite ufe to him, at rejl. 

 Whoever fees the horfe grazing in fummer, 

 and obferves the conftant ufe he makes of 

 his long tail in lafhing the flies from his 

 fides, muft be perfuaded, that it is a moil 

 ufeful inflrument : and mufl: be hurt to fee 

 him fidget a ihort dock, back, and forward, 

 with ineffedual attempts to rid himfelf of 

 fome plague, which he cannot reach. 



As to the objed:ion againft the tail, as an 

 inflrument, which is continually gathering 

 dirty and lajlnng it around, if there be any 

 truth in what I have already obferved, this 

 little objedlion difiblves itfelf; efpecially as 

 the inconvenience may with great eafe be 

 remedied, when the road is dirty, either by 

 knotting up the tail, or by tying it with a 

 leathern-ftrap. 



But 



