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we, by the abfurd and cruel cuftom of docking, a 

 pra6i:ice peculiar to our country, deprive theic ani- 

 mals of both advantages : in the hift war our cavalry 

 fulTered fo much on that account, that we now feeni 

 fenfible of the error, and if we may judge from fome 

 recent orders in refped to thac branch of tiie fervice *, 

 it will for the future be correiled. 



Thus is the horfe provided againil: the two greatefl 

 evils he is fubjeft to from the feafons : his natural 

 difeaks are few; but. our ill ufage, or negleft, or, 

 which is very frequent, our over care of hun, bring 

 on a numerous train, which are often fatal. Among 

 the diilempers he is naturally fubjed to, are the 

 worms, the bots, and the ftone: the fpecies of worms 

 that infeft him are i\\z hanbrici, a.nd afcaridesi both 

 thefe refemble thcfe found in human bodies, only- 

 larger : the bots are the ^n/<r^, or caterpillars of the 

 cefirus, or gad fly: thefe are found both in the r£^um^ 

 and in the flomach, and when in the latter bring on 

 cconvulfions, that often terminate in death. 



* The following remark of a noble writer on this fubjed is too 

 fenfible to be omit;ed : 



' I mult own I am not pofiefTed with the Englijh rage of cutting 



* oiF all extremities from hoifes. I venture to cicclarc I iliould be 

 ' v^ell pleafed if their rails, at left a fwitch or a rag tail, (but better 

 *. if the whole) was left on. It is hardly credible what a dilFcrence, 



* efpecially at a certain feafon of the year, this fjngle alccraLioa 

 « would make in our cavalry, which though naiuially faperior to 



* all other I have ever feen, are however, long before the ciid of the 



* campaign, tor want of that natural defence againft the fries, 

 ' inferior to all: conllantly fweating and fretting at the picquer, 



* tormented and ftung off their meat and lloniachs, iniferable and 

 ' helplefs ; while the foreign cavalry bru'h oiF the vermin, are cool 



* and at eafe, and mend daily, inftead of pcrilhing as ours do aliriOil 



* vifibly in the eye of the beholder.' 



Method of breaking Horles, kz, by Uc7iy;^ Earl cf Pcmlrokef 

 p. 68. 



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