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we hope he will not find it difficult, to blow up and diſperſe the ele- gant and faſhionably ſcientific gout bubbles of the adventurous Dr. Kinglake.

Notwithſtanding what we have advanced, Mr. Hunt has publiſh- ed ſome very rational opinions on the incompetency of ſurgeons and anatomiſts, merely as ſuch, to judge of the uſeful form, breed- ing, and management of cattle. He has, indeed, in this reſped, fol- lowed a track already pointed out to him, and he had probably another light for his guidé; a certain conſciousneſs of his own.— He well expreſses himſelf on this topic, as follows, in page vi of his preface, and we give him c redit for it:

« To ſearch for the vital powers when life is gone, muſt prove 4 vain purſuit. But he who daily views the. whole machine inaction, who watchesall its motions, and.eſtimates its powers, and, vhen the balance ſinks beneath the healthy ſtandard, with cautious hand adds 2 few grains of ſalutary influence to turn the ſcale, will certainly know more about the vital powers than he who, when the ſpring of life has failed, attempts to pry into the worn-out maſs, and with unnatural conjeétures vainly tries to fill the empty ſpace, and with imaginary powers preſumes to ſhow how nature moved the whole with ſympathetic ſway.

«] could exemplify theſe obſervations by innumerable inſtances colleé&ted both from modern pradice and ancient writings, if ſuch evidènce ſhould ever be thought neceflary; but for che preſent ſhall conclude, that in both inſtances the living evidence(the viva vox na- turæ)isof the moſt importance. Iam ready to ac knowledgethat lam much leſs perfeAly acquainted with the praical part of the breed- ing and feeding of domeſtic animals than I am with the internal ftruQures or anatomical illuſtratio of the animal œconomy; but 2s I have ſo long been fituated ſo near to the centre of the breeding ſyſtem, and have had ſuch frequent opportunities of converſing on the ſubje(t, and knowing the opinions of gentlemen of the firſt agricultural abilities, I conſider myſelf more particularly called up- où to guard the preſent ſtate of pradtical improvements againſt the myſterious deluſions of ſcientific repreſentation.”

We will now ſim over his airy‘pages, in which will be joined not only‘“ Bakewell, Cline, breeding in and in, like produces like, bones great and ſmall, horns and no horns, form, crofies, Arabian borſes, Chineſe boars, Flanders mares, and all the reſt of it,’ for which he contra@ed with his readers at the moderate price of five ſhillings, but‘“ Hunter, Darwin, Hogarth, Sir Joſhua Reynolds, phi- ſiological theoriſts, ancient heroes of Greece and Rome, old Engliſh barons, Britiſh valour, cotton-ſpinning, and a panegyric on the late Duke of Bedford,” with even much moré, which he has generouſly thrown into the bargain. On the alleged importance ot the cheit and lungs of animals, our author thus reaſons:

cc Tf then we return to what was the firſt obje of our attention, and at the ſame time admitting that a combination of all the beau- ties of nature is not to be obtained, it certainly would be a queſtion deſerving our attention, if we could determine the ſtandard of per fe@ion which we have in view. In ſheep, the grand charadtrifſtics