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the character of sportsmen) and who are in 

 constant possession of good and valuable 

 horses, pepetually buying, selling, and ex- 

 changing ; but never, for years together, 

 have one in their stables three inonths with- 

 out swelled legs, cracked heels, grease, bad 

 eyes, broken knees, or some of the many ills 

 that constitute a stable of infirmities ; all 

 which they very philosophically and er- 

 roneously attribute to ill luck, that I most 

 justly and impartially place to the account of 

 inadvertent masters, and much more indo- 

 lent servants. 



The advantages arising iixan an uiu'emit- 

 ting perseverance in the regularity of daily 

 ' exercise, (both in respect to time and con- 

 tinuance) cannot be so clearly known and 

 perfectly understood, but to those who have 

 attended minutely to the good effects of its 

 practice, or the ills that become constantly 

 perceptible from its omission. This is un- 

 doubtedly the more extraordinary, when it is 

 recollected there is no one part of th^ animal 

 economy more admirably adapted to the 

 plainest comprehension, tliafi the system of 



