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ings give way, and can be secured only by surrounding the 
foundations with broken glass. The whole neighbourhood has 
been excavated by them to such a degree, that the ground shakes 
beneath your feet. They are caught by placing the fresh carcass 
of a horse alone in an apartment, the walls of which have open¬ 
ings at the bottom. The next morning these holes are stopped, 
and all the rats killed; their skins are then sold at three shillings 
per hundred. 
In this manner, we see that the various parts of a dead horse, 
converted into articles of trade and consumption, yield, according 
to a calculation which has been made when of middling quality, 
two pounds thirteen shillings, and, when very superior, nearly 
five pounds. A dead horse is bought, at first, for from nine 
shillings to thirteen shillings and sixpence,—to which add from 
four shillings and sixpence to six shillings as wages for the col¬ 
lector and labourers, still there remains a profit of about thirty- 
six shillings to the establishment. Now, according to the state¬ 
ment of M. Parent Duchatelet, there are thirty-five horses, on an 
average, every day, or twelve thousand seven hundred and seven¬ 
ty-five every year, brought to Montfau^on from Paris and the 
surrounding neighbourhood :—this altogether affords a profit of 
about twenty-three thousand pounds sterling. 
Perw^ Magazine, 
ON SCHLOSS’S EDITION OF GURLT’S ANATOMY 
OF THE HORSE. 
By Amicus. 
I REMEMBER reading, with a great deal of pleasure, your 
review of Schloss’s Edition of Gurlt’s Anatomy of the Horse, in 
the first Number of the New Series of your invaluable Journal, 
and with which, I am ashamed to say, I then first became ac¬ 
quainted. 
I agreed with you in the regret and indignation which you 
expressed at the perfect destruction of the work as ** the Veteri¬ 
narian’s Compendium of Anatomy,” and as indirectly, and de¬ 
signedly, upholding that infamous system—the total abandonment 
of every other patient, and exclusive attention to the horse ; but 
I was eager to become possessed of the work, as giving me that, 
of which, to the disgrace of my profession and my country, I 
was before destitute, “ an Anatomy of the Horse,” illustrated 
by plates which I could understand; and not by any mere verbal 
description, which I very seldom could understand, at least fully. 
There was one sentence which had particular influence on me 
