EXERCISE. 233 



However, to avoid farther digression in the 

 present instance, and come to a palpable de- 

 monstration of an assertion just made, I shall 

 very concisely introduce, from the multipli- 

 city that have occurred, two recent cases only, 

 as directly applicable to our present purpose 

 of corroboration ; and it is rather remarkable 

 they should both happen on the same day, 

 and within a very short time of this repre- 

 sentation going to press, the horses being the 

 property of persons of the first fashion, and 

 each of them sent upwards of twenty miles 

 for my opinion. 



The first was a hunter of high qualifi- 

 cations and considerable estimation ; upon ac- 

 curate examination I found him in the exact 

 state I have described when labouring under a 

 defluxionof the eyes, (arising from a diseased 

 and acrimonious state of the blood) the dis- 

 charge from which, in its long continuance 

 and severity, had '' fretted channels in his 

 cheeks ;" the eyes were so very much perished 

 that they were absolutely contracted in their 

 orbs, the frame w eak and emaciated, display- 

 ing a spectacle with very slender and discou- 

 raging hopes of rectification. 



