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ternal glare of light to the extreme of total 

 darknefs ; for in fuch hafty tranfition, blows 

 iare frequently fuftained againft the racks, 

 flails, or intervening partitions, that fome- 

 times terminate in the lofs of an eye, with no 

 other caufe affigned for its original appear- 

 ance than the JiuBuation of hu?nours^ which 

 the fuffering fubjedt immediately undergoes 

 repeated confultations and a long courfe of 

 medicines to eradicate. 



The ftiffnefs of the joints, the fwelling 

 of the legs, the fe verity of the cracks, the 

 frequency of the thrufli, the contradtion of 

 the hoofs, and the difficulty of refpiration, 

 are all fo evidently the refulting efTedls of 

 deftruftive fituation and erroneous manage- 

 ment, that to the fporting world alone, lite- 

 rary definition would be deemed fuperfluous ; 

 but to that infinity of Juvenile Eques- 

 trians, who are *' daily rifing to our 

 view,'' and Wonder, ** why their horfes, that 

 they keep at fo much exfence, are unlike 

 moft others they meet in their rural excur- 

 fions/' fuch explanation becomes matter of 

 indifpenfable neceffity . 



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