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in all cases be effective ; thougli I sliould infer; 

 that it would be so, more or less, in most : for I 

 conceive that from whatever part the noise pro- 

 ceeds, its emission is generally through the nostril, 

 thougli I in no shape presume to affirm that it 

 is so. Whistling and roaring I consider synony- 

 mous affections : the description of sound emitted 

 alone creating the difference of epithets applied 

 to the complaint. The wind roars, and the wind 

 whistles ; in both cases the sound of course proceeds 

 from the wind blowins^. The difference of sound 

 being caused by the difference of the aperture 

 through which the Avind takes its course. I con- 

 ceive something like this occasions the difference 

 between whistling and roaring in the horse ; and, 

 takino; this as somethinfj like fact, I consider that 

 we are not to judge of the quantum of incon- 

 venience the animal may experience by the quan- 

 tum of noise he may make when in exertion. Xo 

 question but the louder the sound he emits the 

 w^orse roarer he is ; but I do not hold that it 

 follows, from this circumstance, he is a worse 

 winded horse than one that is not so noisy : the 

 greater or less portion of distress he feels arising, 

 as I before said I conceived it to be, from the 

 state of the primary organs of respiration. The 

 question, therefore, as to the purchasing or re- 

 jecting a roarer simply merges into this : sup- 

 posing we find that such a horse can do the work 



