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with their black colour: it cometh by the industry of the Horse-breeder, whowhen they are yet tender and young,cunningly burns off their hair with an hot iron.But on the contrary, if you would have

'she hairs of a wounded or galled place, to grow up of the fame colour, as the other hairis of,

Tiberius hath taught the way how to do ir. You must knead three pints of bruisedor ground barley, and put to it the froth of nitre and a little salt, and make it intoloaves ; then you must put them into an Oven till they are burned to coals; after-ward crush them, and beat them to powder, and then mix them with oyle, andanoint the sore or the scar therewith ; and this you must do for twenty dates. Butwhat should be the reason that this bailey ashes should cause, not white hairs, butthe like in colour to the rest,to grow upon the scars or fores of horses whereupon itis cast, that, Alexander Aphrodifxus ascribes to this, because barley hath in it a purga-tive and cleansing force, and so wasleth and expelleth the humors,and all the naughtystuff, that was gathered by the fore into that part, because it was maimed, and con-sequently not so well able to relieve it self. Neither yet will 1 here omit that toy ishexperiment whereby we may

Trocure in Oxen a counterfeit shew of fatnejfe •

Is you take an Oxe well grown in years, and make a hole into his thigh, and blewwind thereby into him, and afterward give him meat, he will shew fat, thoughindeed he be very lean. We may also, by giving them some kind of water todrink

Cause the fleeces and hides of cattel to be of divers colours,

as fheweth. The River Crathis affords one channel that makes beasts

white.- for Oxen and Sheep, and all four-footed beasts, tsTheophraflus faith, assoon as they drink of it, become white, though before they were red or black. InEubœa , all for the most part, are white Oxen by nature. Sheep, by reason of thediversity of mater which they drink, do diversly change their colour ; the force andnature of the Rivers working this change in them, especially at every ramming time.Some are turned from black to white, and contrariwise, some are turned from whiteto black: these alterations are commonly seen neer to the River Antanarus, andneer also to a certain River in Thracia. The River Scamander, which is neer untoTroy, makes as many Sheep as drink of the water thereof, to become yellow.We may also conjecture and foresee by certain outward bodily signs in the Damor Sire,

What colour their young ones will be of.

To foreknow the colour of young Mules, we must take special example of the hairsof their Dams cars andeye-lids : for howsoever the rest of their body is of oneand the same colour , yet in those two parts we may discern so many and such co-lours as the foal shall have, as Columella writers,. So if you look under the Ramstongue, you shall there find certain veins; which if they be black, then will theLambs be black also ; but if they be white, then he hath begotten white Lambs: forlook what colour these veins are of, with the fame colour will the fleece of theLambe be overspread • insomuch that if there be sundry colours in them, there willbe also sundry like colours upon the Lambcs, as Aristotle, Demccritut and Didymutdo witnesse. Now, how we may

Know by the egge, whether the chickjwhen it it hatcht, will be a Coi\ or a Hen,Aristotle teacheth us: for, faith he, if the egge be exactly round, then it will yield