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In confirmation of which, without a tedi* 

 ©us animadverfion upon fo long a feries of 

 inconfiftencies, let us advert concifely to the 

 caufes of fuch ill effects as we have ven- 

 tured to enumerate. The difadvantage arif- 

 ing from horfes ftanding in perpetual dark^ 

 jnefs, or with a very faint and glimmering 

 light, muft be too palpably clear to require 

 much elucidation ; for in fuch ftate^ with 

 the full and increafed power of hearings they 

 are inceffantly on the watch to difcover what 

 i^ conflantly affedls one fenfe^ without the 

 expccfled gratification of the other. To this 

 eternal difappointment may be attributed the 

 alternate ftare and twinkling of the eye-lids, 

 fo common to every defcription of horfes that 

 ftand in the mofl remote part of dark ftables^ 

 at each time of being brought forward to 

 face the light ; as well as the additional ob- 

 fervation, that being accuftomed to fee things 

 but impcrfedly in the ftable, when brought 

 into adlion upon the road, they are fo much 

 afFeded by the change, that they become 

 liabitually addicted to Jiop or Jiart at every 

 ilrange or fudden objcd: that approaches. 

 A certain danger alfo attends, when hurried 

 by a carelcfs or drunken oftler, from the ex- 

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