76 BREEDING. 



attentively ascertained, and excellent pasture 

 M^ith <rood water not beinc^ found to increase 

 the flow of milk so much as is evidently re- 

 quired, an addition of more substantial and 

 nutritive food must be associated with what 

 has been always considered the first and most 

 natural aliment for equestrian improvement. 



All rules, however established, are perpe- 

 tually liable to some exception, and nature is 

 not uncommonly assisted, or counteracted, 

 by ways and means the very least expected ; 

 for every constitution will not be acted upon 

 in the same manner either in the human or 

 brute creation. In fact, daily experierice 

 with the human species aiffords ample proof, 

 that the same articles in physic or food shall 

 act in a direct contrary w^ay, and produce 

 a very different effect vipon one habit to 

 what it shall in another ; a circumstance so 

 generally known and admitted, v/ouid fur-- 

 nish sufficient latitude for conjecture respect- 

 ing the animal we now treat of, were proof 

 really wanting to e:itablish such opinion ; 

 which is by no means the case, as numerous 

 instances might be quoted to corroborate a 



