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whose views are more extensive, and who 

 cannot reconcile his opinion or found his 

 juclo'meiit upon the quality of aliment, the 

 pi'(i;'ess of digestion, or the effect of nutrition^ 

 by what has been concisely introduced upon 

 those subjects, must derive more substan- 

 tial assistance from the variety of excellent 

 professional publications more particularly 

 adapted to such investigation and inquiry; 

 as the majority of those who do me the ho- 

 nour of occasional mspection, will certainly 

 expect, under the head we now write upon, 

 to tiud much more matter of amusement 

 and rural instruction than scientific disqui- 

 sition. 



Declinins:, therefore, a matter of so much 

 extent, and so little applicable to the present 

 purpose, we naturally revert to the state of 

 the mare, and the means of enlarging the 

 powers; from which, alone, the foal is to re- 

 ceive not only a suihciency of nutriment 

 for bare subsistence, but an absolute abun- 

 dance or superflux for tlie promotion of ad- 

 vantages we have so particularly explained. 

 ^I'he deiiciencj^ before mentioned having been 



