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nature sufficiently strong to bear almost 

 every task the degeneracy or avarice of man 

 could be supposed to invent. In corrobora- 

 tion of this circumstance, of the premature 

 deaths occasioned by increasing the velocity 

 of the blood beyond the limits prescribed by 

 nature, I present to the reader^s imagination 

 that iufinitv of most beautiful horses that 

 upon every principal road in England con- 

 stantly fall victims to the rapidity of MAIL 

 COACHES, FLYING MACHINES, 

 DILLIES, and POST TRAVELLERS; 

 more particularly in the extreme heat of 

 summer, when they are seen daily dying 

 martyrs to the eagerness of impatient travel- 

 lers, or the innate cruelty of inhuman driv- 

 ers. To these some (but a very few) of 

 private property may be added, hard drove 

 -upon long and speedy journeys, and others 

 imprudently jode, and improperly managed, 

 during chases of great length, in strong deep 

 countries, with fleet hounds. 



Others become the subjects of these dis- 

 orders from great irritation (with severe and 

 excruciating pains) in the stomach and 

 bowels ; the powerful effects of worms or 



