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will require considerably more, or become 

 emaciated by loss of flesh in frequent per- 

 spiration. These rules are offered as a kind 

 of general standard ; they must, however, re- 

 main subject to the conditional regulations 

 of those who become individually interested 

 iu the event, 



, There are numerous causes to be assigned, 

 why horses constantly used in travelling (par- 

 ticularly in the winter) and subject to all the 

 vicissitudes of different stabling upon the 

 roads, mostly bear the appearance of inva- 

 lids, and look so very different from those 

 kept under a systematic and invariable mode 

 of management in private stables. The de- 

 grees of deception, and various ills they have 

 to encounter in many inns, are absolutely 

 incredible to those Unacquainted with the 

 arts in fashionable practice : the destructive 

 negligence of ostlers, the badness of hay, the 

 hardness of pump water, and what is still 

 more to be lamented, the scarcity of 

 CORN, render it a matter of astonishment how 

 they are enabled to perform journeys of such 

 an amazing extent as they are perpetually 

 destined to. 



