Experiments on Glandered Horfes. of the horses, and remained very little difcernible in the other two. At this time, thinking it to be a fecondary effect of the difeafe, and fuppofing that the refolution was only in the conglobated glands, I imagined that time would complete the cure. Every thing feemed to promife it until the 72d day, when the running appeared anew in one; it thewed itself at the end of three weeks in the fecond; and near three months elapfed before it returned in the third horfe; in all of them it was more violent than ever. The two former were firft killed for investigation. I found the frontal and maxillary finufes filled with purulent matter in both; the pituitary membrane was alfo ulcerated in many places; from whence I inferred that the injections had not pene trated into the fuperior cavities. On infpection, the back part of the mouth, the windpipe, the bronchias, and the lungs, difcovered no mark of inflammation: all the other parts appeared in their natural state. The third was afterwards killed and opened: I found that the frontal, maxillary, and zygomatic finufes, contained much bloody matter; the membrane was ulcerated to a great degree; the bones carious in many parts; and the lymphatic gland on the right fide was become fchirrous; I found in the right lobe of the lungs five vomicas, the bignefs of a pigeon's egg, or nearly fo. No other part feemed to be affected. EXPERIMENT II.. Two faddle-horfes (the one Spanish, the other Navarefe; the former nine years old, the latter feven) in the confirmed glanders, were put under the following regimen. VOL. VII. No. XXXVIII. 73 They were reftricted to a low diet for two days, and let blood the third. The 4th day they were trepanned; the Spanish horse on the left fide, because the running was only there. The operation was performed on both fides the head of the Navarefe: the mat ter being difcharged from both his noftrils. After the operation, I injected through the openings a decoction of barley water and, honey, to cleanfe the ulcers. The 5th, I used the injection made with lime-water, vinegar, and falt. It was repeated twice. The 6th, I gave to each four quarts of the fecond lime-water, fweetened with honey. This drink and the injections, were continued to the 15th day. The 16th, the running had diminished one half; but the obftruction of the lymphatic glands was augmented. The 17th, the running became more abundant; but the matter feemed to be of a better fort: The lime water was continued to the 30th, in the proportion of fix quarts a day. The horfes now becoming dull, and disgusted with their food, I fufpended the course of medicines till the 35th day. The 36th, two quarts a day of a ftrong infufion of camomile was given to each. This was continued to the 42d. The dulnefs difappeared; their appetite returned; but the difcharge, as well as the obftruction of the glands, continued the fame. The 43d, in the morning, I threw up injections with honeyed barley-water; in the afternoon, a fecond injection with alum, white vitriol, lime-water, and vinegar, was administered. This was continued to the 50th day. At that time the matter was whitish, and in fmall quantity; K but 74 Obfervations on Duelling. but the Spanish horfe now difcharged pus at both noftrils. From the 51ft to the 60th, injections were given, made with fpirit of wine, copperas, and gall-nuts. The 66th, the running had almoft difappeared; both horfes were in good fpirits, and eat and drank as ufual. They were walked out an hour every day, The Spanish horfe foon feemed to be well, and continued fo about a month; after which time the running appeared again; the matter became bloody and fœtid. Convinced now of the inefficacy of remedies to him, he was killed. On opening the nofe, I obferved the membrane was corroded, particularly on the right fide; the fuperior horn was almoft deftroyed, and the lachymal duct choaked up with purulent mat. ter. The diffection of the brain offered nothing particular. The vifcera of the abdomen was found. A fmall portion of the interlobu. lary texture of the lungs had abfceffes; but the matter had not penetrated into the bronchias. The lymphatic glands contained a concreted humour. The Navarefe preferved (to all appearance) perfect health from the beginning of June to the end of Auguft in the fame year. At that period, the running took place again; and in the space of three weeks the difeafe increased to fuch a degree, that I was obliged to kill the animal. On opening, I obferved that the pituitary membrane was ulcerated in a great extent of its furface: the cartilaginous partition was attacked by the matter; the fnufes contained very little of it. All the intestines appeared found. (To be continued) To the Editors of the Sporting Magazine, GENTLEMEN, S a fubfcriber to your very entertaining work, and a conftant reader fince its com• mencement, I have experienced very great pleafure indeed. In the courfe of reading your last Number but one, (page 304) under the title of Honourable Sporting, I find an article, however, defended, nay even praifed, to which I own I cannot fubfcribe; and having a leisure hour to fpare, I thought I could not fpend it better than in briefly throwing out a few bints, in anfwer to the remarks of A True Briton. May I add, that the infertion of it will much oblige Your obedient fervant, St. Andrew's Square, I CONCUR with A True Briton moft cordially in regretting that affluence, power, riches, and every thing defirable in this world, cannot exist without being the caufe (if I may ufe the word) of filly, ridiculous quarrels betwixt parties, and where the most innocent, the most exalted, and the most amusing of characters, are often led into a fight with a fellow who is not a companion for a human being, and who, were it not for the yellow duft in his pocket, would be defpifed by every foul but the very refufe and dregs of the town. In this fituation, "fatisfaction is the only alternative;" but what fatisfaction, I would ask, is it to a great character to turn out, and where, even when they "refolve on deciding it in a manner fo truly Extraordinary Sporting Performances. truly applicable to the name they bear," (meaning the name of a True Briton) the only afterna. tive is kill me, or I kill you. Grant that the parties are on a footing, I will be bold to fay, that the man who, in fuch fitua. tion, lays his hand on his beater and fays, I feel I have a monitor within me, and that monitor tells me it is trampling on the laws, not only of man, but of the Al. mighty, to take the life of a fellow creature, or to rifk my own on the turning of a straw, (fuch triffes they generally originate in) I fay, I think his conduct thows more courage than a fellow who, defpifing both, rushes into eternity with all his fins on his head, into the prefence of his creator; and fuch are thofe who difplay their valour in duelling. I could fay a great deal more, and if the above meets with your approbation, I fhall, at a future time, trouble you with a few hints on the bad effects of duelling in the most favourable point of view it can be taken; but I have already tranfgreffed too much upon your time at prefent. 75 minutes and a half to fpare. The horfe lived only four hours and a half after the race, though every effort was used to preferve the animal's life. 28th, A hare was found near Felfted, in Effex, by Mr. Barnard's went off with great fpeed towards hounds, of Lindley Hall; they Great Leighs, Waltham, &c. and it was at laft taken alive from out of a drain in a farm-yard, after running upwards of thirtythree miles in two hours. March 6th, a trotting match took place on the Romford road, betwixt a horfe aged twenty-two, the property of Mr. Johufon, of Bromley in Kent, and a mare five years old, belonging to Mr. Read, of London; the fum, fifty guineas a fide; the diftance ten miles, which the horfe performed in thirty-four minutes, and the mare in forty-two. Ten to one before ftarting was laid on the mare, 10th, Mr. Abraham Fenn, of Hadleigh, in Suffolk, ran from the Shoulder-of-Mutton Ina, in that place, to the Fox, in Kaydon, and back again, which is upwards of eight miles, for a wager of sol. He was allowed an hour to Extraordinary SPORTING PER- do it in, but performed it in fifty F FORMANCES. (Continued from page 24) 1789. EBRUARY 21ft, Mr. Richard Thompson (horfe dealer of Derby) rode an aged black horfe, from Burton-upon-Trent, on the Litchfield road, ten miles, and back again, for a bet of twenty guineas. He was to ride the twenty miles in one hour and three minutes; but, notwithLanding it continued to rain for fame time after he started, and that he rode more than 11ft. he won the wager, and had near two minutes, with the greatest eafe. Mr. Fenn was fifty years of age. wager, April 12th, Sir Henry St. John's park-keeper, at Dogmerffield Park, near Odiham, for a confiderable wager, fhot fix pigeons out of ten, with a fingle ball. He afterwards, to decide a bet, hit a cricket-ball, with com mon fhot, twelve times fucceffively, bowled betwixt the wickets, by Harris, one of the quickest bowlers in the Hambledon club. May 6th, the gentlemen of Maddington, in Wiltshire, with a couple of hounds that were matched, moved a hare, upon Stoke K z 76 On the Breed of Rabbits. Stoke-down, which, it is fuppofed, they ran near fifteen miles in three quarters of an hour, when it was killed by one of the dogs, which carried 4lb weight of fhot. July 9th. William Afpinall, the famous pedestrian of Pontefract. at seven o'clock in the morning, fet off for a trifling wager, to walk from Stamford, to and from Thorp-arch, four times, (a diftance of 144 miles) in the fpace of forty-eight hours. He performed this extraordinary feat in forty-three hours-Great bets, were depending on this exertion, and the winners made a collection and prefented Afpinall with fifty guineas. 15th, Mr. Shadbolt, known as well by the name of Goliath) a reputable publican at Ware, remarkable for his great mufcular ftrength, undertook for a confiderable wager, to run and push his cart, from Ware to Shoreditch church, (the distance of twenty-one miles) in ten hours: which he eafily performed within the fpice of fix hours and a few feconds, without the leaft appearance of fatigue. Great fums were won and loft on the occafion. Auguft 27th, Mr. Nightingale, of Braintree, in Effex, for a wager of ten guineas, engaged to drive his horfe, in a chaife, forty miles, in four hours and ten minutes, which was performed in three hours, fifty-feven minutes and a half, being twelve minutes and a half lefs than the given time. 27th and 28th, A very extraordinary fingle game at cricket was played in the Roebuok field, near Maidstone, between Boor. man of Canterbury, and Woolett, of Wrotham, for 100 guineas. Boorman went in firft, and had 213 balls; he made 168 hits, and got no less than 126 runs, when he was bowled out. Woolett's first innings was decided by a fingle ball; he then went in for fecond, and got feven in the first eight balls; the ninth he was again bowled out; confequently, Boorman won at a fingle inning, by 119 runs; though the odds at pitching the wickets, were 7. to 4 against him. September 14th, Col. Rofs for a bet of 800 guineas with Mr. Pigott, undertook to ride on one hofe from London to York (202 miles) in forty-eight hours. He performed his journey with eafe in forty fix hours and a half. October 6th, during the meeting at Newmarket, the Duke of Queenfbery, and Sir John Lade, mounted on a brace of mules, run from the Ditch-in, for 1000l. This ludicrous heat was very anxiously and obftinately contefted. The event was in favour of the Duke. November 9th, a bet of 100 guineas was decided on Ipfwich race-ground, by Capt. Hull's hoife, who was engaged to run fifty miles in three hours, which he performed with ease in two hours and fifty minutes. (To be continued.) To the EDITORS of the SPORTING MAGAZINE. GENTLEMEN, HOUGH the fubject of the Tfollowing paper may not exactly come under a fporting head, yet Ι am convinced you would, at any time, give place to an article, in your respectable publication, that would prove advantageous to many of your fubfcribers. As there must, doubtless, Method of learning to Shoot Flying. 77 doubtlefs, be in your lift many | METHOD of learning to SHOOT who are in poffeffion of rabbitwarrens, plats, &c. &c. and who would certainly find their interest in the adoption of the measure alluded to, I truft it will be a futficient recommendation to your attention, and remain Your's, &c. CH. CHESTER. Chichester, Nov. 9, 1795. FLYING. To the EDITORS of the SPORTING GENTLEMEN, THE HE following is a letter to a gentleman, a lover of fhooting, who, together with fome brother sportsmen to whom he fhewed it, are defirous that it may be made public, by inserting it in the Sporting Magazine, I am, Gentlemen, Norwich, Νου. 12, 1795. "Sir, A SPORTSMA¶" A gentleman of the neighbourhood in which I refide, fometime back, prefented me with a rabbit of fix months age, which, when made fit for the spit, exceeded fix and a half pounds weight. On my expreffing my astonishment at its having attained fuch an amazing fize at so early an age, he told "I TAKE this opportunity of me he had been in the habit of communicating to you a method cutting his rabbits, for near two which occurred to me, for imyears, and found it to be a moft provement in the art of shooting profitable method. He then pro-flying. I think it may prove a ceeded to inform me, that, when about fix or seven weeks old, he performs the operation; and, though he fuppofes he has cut near 300, he never loft one in confequence of it. He has frequently, for the fatisfaction of 1ome of his friends, left one or two of a litter in their natural ftate; and has uniformly found the others, at feven or eight months, nearly double the weight of them, though partaking exactly of the fame food, and all of them running together. A friend of mine, who has a warren of great extent, has made a trial of the fame nature, and is much pleased with the profpect he has of its proving of great utility. I fall conclude with recommending the adoption of it to fuch of your fubfcribers as are warreners, and will vouch for its becoming highly beneficial. pleafing, as well as useful diverfion, being more analogous to this art than the former fcheme of fhooting at a moving pendulum; as more time may be taken, and have the object move fafter or flower, as you like. The method is as follows: "Strain a line (about the fize of common bed-cord) from two strong hooks drove into a wall, or two pofts, at eight or ten vards diftance, as your conveniency will permit. Another line mug be trained under the former, about a foot lower. A board must be prepared, the fize of a large fheet of paper, having a thick fplint with a groove nailed on its back and upper edge, which groove must be fo large and deep, that, when hung on your upper line, it may flide freely thereon without being thrown off, and it will move fteadily by fliding against |