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ON BREEDING. 
It is evident that the old authors have not sought, in their re¬ 
searches, to determine the nature of glanders: they had observed 
the prominent symptoms, the obvious signs, and they drew hy¬ 
pothetical inferences; their opinions rested only upon conjectures; 
not one of them has considered it as an organic lesion, a species 
of disease more common than they were aware of. The moderns 
have nothing enriched these ideas; they have followed the old 
tract: like those who have gone before them, they have not tried 
to gain the source; their writings are really nothing but commen¬ 
taries; they have developed, amplified, and presented in other 
forms what was written before. 
ON BREEDING. 
By Mr. Karkeeic, of Truro. 
[Continued from p. 269.] 
DIFFERENCES IN THE DISPOSITIONS OF HORSES. 
“ Ergo animos aevumque notabis 
Praecipue: bine alias artes; prolemque parentuxn, 
Et quis cuique dolor victo, quae gloria palmae.” 
The advice of Virgil with respect to choosing a horse u for a 
chariot or the manege,” should be followed by every one who 
intends to breed those valuable animals. The character and 
habits of the sire and dam should be thoroughly known; for it 
is a well known fact, that the offspring generally inherits the pro¬ 
pensities and passions of the parents. Every one acquainted 
with horses must be well aware that there is as great a variety 
in their dispositions as there is found among mankind: the 
boundless ocean does not exhibit scenes more diversified than 
their various tempers and characters. Each appears to possess 
an original bent, which seems to distinguish one from the other; 
that tends to form a character, and to make them meek or fiery, 
generous or deceitful, resolute or timorous. Those peculiar 
characters may, in some measure, be discriminated by the coun¬ 
tenance. The countenance has been by some supposed tOjjbe 
the index of the brain—a book where the passions and emotions 
might be read; but this has been too much over-rated; for the 
countenance of a horse, as well as that of a man, is oftentimes a 
fallacious dial: notwithstanding, it must be allowed, that there 
is a certain turn of expression in the countenance of horses which 
