194 STABLING. 



To ilie want of general cleanliness, pure 

 air, and regular exercise, maybe justly attri- 

 buted all the ills we have just recited; and 

 that such assertion may lay impartial claim 

 to proper weight in the scale of reflection,, 

 let it be first remembered, that horses in the 

 situation 1 allude to, are constantly living in 

 certain degrees of lieat, not only beyond the 

 state required by nature, but vei'y far ex- 

 ceeding even the stable temperature of horses 

 in regular training for the turf. 



That this may be the better understood by 

 those whose situations in life have precluded 

 the cliance of such inspection, and that great 

 body of readers in various and distant 

 parts of the kingdom, who never have, and 

 perhaps never 7nfty make a survey of public 

 stables in the metropolis, I think it neces- 

 sary to introduce an exact representation of 

 systetnatic inconsistency, perfectly exculpated 

 from even the slightest suspicion of exagge- 

 ration. As I have repeatedly (43served, and 

 it is universally admitted, there is no rule 

 w^ithout some exception ; so the following 

 description may have some, but very few 

 to boast of. 



