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ternall glare of light to the extreme of total 

 darkness ; for in such hasty transition, blows 

 elre frequently sustained against the racks, 

 stalls, or intervening partitions, that some- 

 times terminate in the loss of an eye, with 

 no other cause assigned for its original ap- 

 pearance than the J/ucfuation of humours^ 

 which the suffering subject immediately un- 

 dergoes repeated consultations and a long 

 course of medicines to eradicate. 



The stiifness of the joints, the swelling 

 of the legs, the severity of the cracks, the 

 frequency of the thrush, the contraction of 

 the hoofs, and the difficulty of respiration, 

 are all so evidently the resultive effects of 

 destructive situation and erroneous manasfe- 

 ment, that to the sporting world alone, lite- 

 rary definition would be deemed superfluous ; 

 but to that infinity of Juvenile Eques- 

 trians, who are '' daily rising to our view," 

 and wonder, '' why their horses, that they 

 keep at so much expense^ are unlike most 

 Others they meet in their rural excursions," 

 such explanation becomes matter of indis- 

 pensable necessity. 



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