214 Oloathing. 



Nay morCj for that portion of the sweat which is carried off^ will 

 be chiefly evaporated from the extreme ends of the hairs, which on 

 account of their length, will act as syphons to convey • the perspired 

 fluid to Iheir extremities. The skin itself therefore, will be protected 

 from the effects of extreme cold, in two distinct ways ; first, by the 

 great quantity of the coat which will confine the heat of the body, 

 and secondly, in consequence of the process of evaporation chiefly 

 jroins: on at so screat a distance from its surface. 



It must be evident from what has been advanced, that Horses kept 

 in hot stables, and covered with warm cloathing-, have great disad- 

 vantages to struggle against, on the score of those diseases that arise 

 more immediately from vicissitudes of heat and cold, which those 

 that are kept abroad, or in well ventilated stables, without cloathing, 

 are but in a small degree exposed to. 



But, there is another disadvantage which they labour under, of a 

 still more serious kind, and of a nature which precludes the possi- 

 bility of remedy, namely, the v/ant of that general energy of the 

 frame and hardihood of constitution which is to be met with only 

 amongst such as breathe a cool and pure atmosphere. For, enoagh 

 I hope has been already said to convince my readers, that it' is the 

 circumstance of sudden vicissitudes of temperature rather than the 

 exposure of the animal to a continuance of the extreme degree of 

 either heat or cold, which operates so much to the prejudice of 

 Horses that are kept in hot stables. Surely, then, the advocates for 

 the Cloathing system must abandon their arguments altogether, or 

 be content to have recourse to the use of it on the principles of com- 

 mon sense; which wiU direct its application in such a way as to 



