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defence of them; but men who have pursued 

 but one path, cannot be said to possess an ex- 

 tensive experience. Their knowledge of a sub- 

 ject will be confined in proportion with the 

 narrow scale of their experiments. Hence 

 many fallacious processes are persisted in, 

 merely because the parties have neither the in- 

 clination to change them, nor the perseverance 

 to give new ones a fair trial. 



The object in training hunters and racers, 

 appears to consist in an attempt to increase their 

 powers of respiration, and to enable them to 

 support violent exertion for a long duration. 

 The first proceeding, therefore, is to divest them 

 of all superfluous animal matter. This might 

 be accomplished by exercise only; but as a 

 more expeditious mode is sometimes required, 

 purges are administered, which increase the ab- 

 sorption of the fluids, and carry them ofl' by the 

 intestines. 



When 



