THE PARTRIDGE-FRENCH POST HORSES. 419 
Some horse dealers give broken-winded horses a quantity of 
shot when they carry them into the market for sale ; and I suppose 
it is to draw the bowels from the midriff, so that the disorder may 
not be discoverable; but at the same time there is great danger 
of killing the horse. 
But it is not enough to give proper medicines: the horse’s diet 
should also be carefully attended to at the same time, if we would 
hope for success. In order to this, the horse should eat very spar¬ 
ingly of hay, which, as well as his corn, should be wetted with 
chamberlye, which is much better than water; and in this disease 
the horse is always craving after water. Chamberlye is best for this 
purpose, because of the volatile salts which it contains, as they 
are the means of removing the thirst: for the same reason, garlic 
is very efficacious in this disorder. Two or three cloves being’ 
given in each feed, or three ounces bruised, and boiled in one quart 
of milk and water, and given every morning for a fortnight, has 
been found very serviceable. So easy a remedy should never 
be neglected; for by warming and stimulating the solids, and 
at the same time dissolving the tenacious juices which choak 
up the vessels of the lungs, it greatly relieves this complaint.— 
Knowlesortfs Cattle and Horse Doctor , p. 46. 
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The Partridge, 
The Isle of Chios abounds in this kind of partridge, which 
live in the same houses with the inhabitants. Each person keeps 
a number, greater or smaller according to his inclination or cir¬ 
cumstances: a public keeper is appointed for them. At day¬ 
break he calls them out of their habitations, by whistling: as 
soon as they are all assembled, they follow him, as sheep do the 
shepherd, into the fields, where they are to feed during the day. 
At night fall, collected into a flock by the same signal, they 
follow their keeper to the village, and there separate, going to 
their respective homes and roosts.— Busbequius s Travels . 
French Post Horses. 
We took post-horses for Boulogne, if at least we may call those 
post-horses we rode on, as lean they were as Envy is in the poet. 
Neither were they only lean enough to have their ribs numbered ; 
but the very spur-galls had made such casements through their 
skins, that it had been no great difficulty to survey their entrails. 
A strange kind of cattle, in my opinion ; and such as have neither 
flesh on their bones, nor skin on their flesh, nor hair on their skin. 
All the neighing we could hear from the proudest of them w as 
an old dry cough, which, I assure you, did much comfort me; 
for, by that noise, I first learned there w as life in them. Upon 
such anatomies of horses, or, to speak more properly, on such 
heaps of bones, was I and my company mounted.— Heylin's 
Voyage to France . 
