834 PR.VCnCAL hints for shipping animals. 
without limit in its application and its views, severe and 
geometrical in its reasoning, there is scarcely any human 
occupation which it does not enlighten and improve. Many 
other advantages arising^ from the cultivation of chemistry 
might be mentioned, and even many of the arts enumerated 
which depend entirely on this science for their successful 
application and improvement; but enough has already been 
said to show the great utility of chemical knowledge to all 
classes of the community, in every situation in life. We 
glory in the conquests of science ; but we look upon science 
as merely an agent. Science may be a botanist; but w/w 
started the vital fluid in the veins of the herb and flower ? 
Science may be a geologist; but zo/io wrote the rock-covered 
page, whose hieroglyphics she would translate ? Science 
may be an astronomer; but tvAo built the worlds ? zo/io pro¬ 
jected the comets, whose mysterious paths she traces ? Science 
may be an agriculturist, she may open the earth’s breast and 
cast in most precious seed, but if the fountain of dew be 
stayed, science herself will die of thirst. Be it observed, 
then, that science is an agent, not a cause, and that while we 
rejoice in its agency, we are bound to acknowledge the good¬ 
ness and mercy of our Creator. 
PRACTICAL HINTS FOR THE SHIPPING OF 
HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS. 
By George Fleming, M.R.C.V.S., &c.. Royal Engineers. 
I SEIZE the first leisure moments to tell you all I can about 
our mode of conveying horses on shipboard. My experience, 
commencing with the Crimean war, was continued in North 
China, and lately carried on in connection with the expedi¬ 
tion to Abyssinia. In North China I had more or less to do 
with the ship-fitting for the conveyance of some 3000 head 
of oxen, as well as about the same number of horses. 
Very much relating to the safety and comfort of animals on 
shipboard will depend upon the fittings. These should be so 
arranged that the animals stand with their heads inwards, a 
passage between each row of stalls being left for the attend¬ 
ants to feed and water the horses or cattle whose heads are 
towards the passage. 
The rows of stalls ought to extend from stem to stern of 
the ship. Ordinary vessels may have four of these rows on 
the main deck; one row on each side, the animals’ tails to 
