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as are flridlly necefiary, and abfolutely con- 

 ducive to the prefervation of health, though 

 perhaps not at all times properly attended to. 

 For inftance, no rubje(5tis more highly entitled 

 to a diftind: and feparate inveftigation than the 

 article of 



FEEDING, 



as a peculiar attention to the qualities and 

 quantities of aliment is particularly neceflary 

 to fecure the horfe in a ftate of health and con- 

 dition, fit for the immediate purpofe to which 

 he may be deftined. To produce him at all 

 times ready for the turfy fields or roady be- 

 comes neceffarily the complete ftyle of clean^ 

 linefsy drejjingy exercifey and various minutis, 

 that conftitute the prefent perfed: ftate of ftable 

 difcipline; which never arofe to fo high a 

 pitch of excellence, and can have originated 

 only In a laudable emulation, that feems (by a 

 kind of fympathetic infpiration or enthuiiafm) 

 to have taken poffeffion of every groom ia 

 ftables of repute, and renders unnecefiary the 

 moil trifling obfervations upon this ceremony, 

 7 where 



