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that he could never be able to go through 

 a lecond day's fatigue without an alteration 

 in his favour. 



Eftablifliing this as a fadl not to be con- 

 troverted by the fallacious eftcd: of fpecu- 

 lative rumination, and perfedly convinced 

 neither entertainment nor utility can be de- 

 rived from farther tedious explanatory re- 

 marks and obfervations upon the inconve- 

 niencies of fuch mode of llioeing, as well as 

 the numerous difficulties not to be furmounted 

 if inadvertently encountered ; I fhall only 

 flightly infinuate the abfolute impojjibility of 

 hunting or travelling (particularly in the 

 rainy feafons) in various hilly or chalky 

 parts of the kingdom, without the accumu- 

 lated probabilities of lamenefs to the horfe, 

 continual danger to the rider, and the inevi- 

 table certainty of bruifing the heel and frog to 

 a degree of difeafe, which mull: prove the rcr. 

 fulting evil even upon the flatteft and beft 

 turnpikes ; but in the rough and ftony roads, 

 or ftrong and dry hard clays, fuch events 

 may be expeded as totally unavoidable. 



jBidding adieu io a mode of (lioeing calcu- 

 M 4 lated 



