300 
MISCELLANEA. 
The second examination was made of water taken from the 
leaden pipes at the Royal kennel at Ascot, when the specific 
gravity was found to be 100.42. Upon an imperial pint of this 
water being, as in the former experiment, evaporated to dryness, 
it yielded two grains of solid matter; viz. 
Grains. 
Carbonate of lead 164 
Organic matter, and traces of chlorides of 
sodium and magnesium, and sulphate 
of lime 038 
.202 
Excess in the course of analysis 002 
It has therefore been calculated by Dr. Ryan, that every im- 
perial gallon of the water used at the Royal kennel, after passing 
through the leaden pipes, contains 1.312 grains of the carbonate 
of lead. 
THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1843. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
We have only room for half a dozen lines. There were few of 
our readers who did not participate in our pleasure on the rejection 
of the dog-cart bill. It would have been an unjust and cruel 
measure with regard to our quadruped friends and dependents, 
and would have doomed thousands of them to destruction. The 
poor ass and the goat would have probably suffered to an extent 
scarcely now dreamed of. The passing of the bill would also 
have been unjust to a large class of persons to whom the dog 
now helps to afford the means of subsistence, and it would have 
stamped upon our country a character of folly and inhumanity 
that would never have been effaced. 
Y. 
