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fluid is loft by this opening inftead of going to 

 the mouth, and deftroys the horfe. 



Error VI. 



There are ibme who take out the lampas -, I 

 have feen a horfe who bled to death after this 

 operation, for they were never able to flop the 

 blood. 



They perform this operation under a notion 

 that this production 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 mull therefore be obferved, that it is a ge- 

 neral rule that all young horfes 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 ftomachs, and it is 

 pretended their lofs of appetite is caufed by 

 ibme teeth grown above the reft, but this is a 

 meer imagination -, for I have feen many horfes 

 who had fome of their teeth confiderably higher 

 than others, and yet chewed their aliment the 



better. 



