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sideration. All the observations under this 

 head, having been introduced to demonstrate 



the UTILITY OF EXERCISE IN GENERAL, and 



the ills that certainly arise from the xv ant of 

 it, more than to lay down specific rules for 

 the daily exercise of particular horses ; such 

 instructions will be found included under 

 the management of Hunters and Road 

 Horses, when we come to enlarge upon 

 those different heads. 



ROWELLING 



HAS been to the credulous and illiterate 

 #f past times, exactly what the fascinating 

 infatuation of animal magnetism proves to 

 the dupes of the present ; like humours, 

 it has been played upon by most writers in 

 rotation, without an explanatory line in its 

 favour to produce satisfactory proof of its 

 mechanical process or established utility. 

 Bracken, who hardly ever gave cause of 

 complaint for abridging his subject, but ge- 

 nerally most condescendingly spun it (by a 

 variety of branches) to an almost indivisible 

 thread, deviated in this instance from his 



