<f The jdnatojny of a WOKS'E. Chap. I. 



C H A P. I. 



Of the Parts which inveji and cover the whole 

 Body. 



^. 1. Of the Hair^ ScatfsJtin, Hide, and Flejl^y Panicle. 



^h Ha' T ^ defcribing the Parts of a Horfe, the 



-*■ firft Thing that prefents to our View, is 

 the Hair^ which may not improperly be called the upper- 

 moll Cover of the whole Body. It will be very little to our 

 purpofe to fpcnd time about its Production, or how it 

 comes to be of fo many different Colours; I fhall therefore 

 proceed to obferve, that the Hair is both an Ornament and 

 a Defence to all Animals. That which we call his Coat, 

 is not only agreeable to the Ey€ in a plump young Horfe, 

 but a Defence from the Injuries of Cold and Heat, and the 

 Accidents to which he would be often expos'd, in his feed- 

 ing among Shrubs and Buflies ; and that which grows 

 out to fome length on the Footlock, is a no lefs Defence 

 to that prominent Part, when he travels on ftony Ways, or 

 in frofty Weather, when the Roads are crufted, which 

 otherwife would be very much expos'd to Wounds and 

 Bruifes. As for the Main, Tail, and Foretop, they add 

 greatly to the Beauty of a Horle, and are a fuitable Dc- 

 corement to a Creature of fo much Fire and Mettle. 

 the Cuticula "^^^ ^""^ ^^^>' Tegument, or Cover, is 



or Scarf skin! ^^^ Scarf skin, and is that which rifes fo 



eafily mto a Blifter, by being pinch'd or 

 fcalded ; it is not endued with any tender Senfation, but 

 •will bear the Touch without Pain ; it is produc'd from 

 the Hide, which it involves and coders on all Parts, and 

 has from thence its Nourifliment. Its Ufe is not only to 

 cover the true Skin, and defend it from thofe painful 

 Senfations to which it would be expos'd, as we daily ob- 

 ferve, when it is fretted off; but as it refembles a curious 

 Net-work, and is full of little Holes or Pores, it is there- 

 by fuited to give way to the excrementitious Matter which 

 continually exhales from the Body. 

 tj-f^ rr. , The next common Covering is (he Skin, 



(properly fo call'd) or Hide, which lies im- 

 mediately under the other. It is nouiilli'd with Veins, Ar- 

 teries, 



