588 HUNTERS. 



subject to abstruse reasoning or remote con- 

 viction. 



It has been repeatedly proved vinder the 

 article of Exercise and its effects, that a 

 want of action (when properly supplied 

 with food) overloads not only the frame 

 with aliment^ but the circulation with a 

 superflux of nutrition ; it must therefore evi- 

 dently appear, by parity of reasoning, that 

 great and constant exertions in the chase 

 must necessarily exhaust the fluids by per- 

 spiration, as the contents of the intestines 

 by evacuation ; and unless the system is 

 sufficiently supplied with nutritious, resto- 

 rative and healthy aliment (the best in its^ 

 kind) for the due support of these frequent 

 discharges, impoverished blood, loss of flesh, 

 dejected spirit; and bodily debilitation, must 

 prove the inevitable consequence. 



After the most attentive obseiTation I 

 have been able to bestow for a number of 

 years cultivating an anxious desire-to disco- 

 ver the proper criterion of support and gra- 

 tification for horses of this description, who 



