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disorders. For, being thus deprived of more 

 than half his support, the trifling quantity 

 he did take (being against the disposition 

 of nature and appetite) afforded little nutri- 

 ment ; nor of course could, when fourteen 

 pounds of hay only had perhaps passed the 

 intestinal canal in four days, instead of fifty- 

 six ; the accustomed and proper proportion 

 being rated at fourteen pounds for twenty- 

 four hours, where horses are regularly corn- 

 fed. To bring this defect in the quality and 

 quantity of this part of the aliment home to 

 every comprehension, let any reader con- 

 ceive the idea (or try the experiment) of 

 sitting down with an excellent appetite (after 

 a most excellent chase) to a beef-steak nearly 

 approaching putrefaction, with no sauce but 

 hunger, no alternative but necessity, and I be- 

 lieve I may venture to assert- — the feelings of 

 the MAN and the beast will not be dissimilar 

 on the occasion. 



These circumstances attending both hay 

 and corn I have repeatedly been witness to ; 

 and do aflSrm, in opposition to any opinion 

 that may be formed against me, most horses 

 Avill shew, in less than a fortnight, both in 



