194 STABLING. 



To the want of general cleanlinefs, pure 

 air, and regular exercife, may be juftly attri- 

 buted all the ills we have juft recited ; and 

 that fuch alTertion may lay impartial claim 

 to proper weight in the fcale of refledtion, 

 let it be firft remembered, that horfes in 

 the fituation I allude to, are conftantly liv- 

 ing in certain degrees of heat, not only be- 

 yond the ftate required by nature, but very 

 far exceeding even the ftable temperature of 

 horfes in regular training for the turf. 



That this may be the better underftood by 

 thofe whofe fituation s in life have precluded 

 the chance of fuch infpedtion, and that great 

 body of readers in various and diftant parts 

 of the kingdom, w^ho 2tcver have, and per- 

 haps 72 ever may make a iurvey of public 

 ftables in the metropolis ; I think it necef- 

 fary to introduce an exad: reprefentation of 

 fyjiematic inconfijlency, perfeftly exculpated 

 from even the flighteft fufpicion of exagge- 

 ration. As I have repeatedly obferved, and 

 it is univerfally admitted, there is no rule 

 without fome exception ; fo the following 

 defcription may have fome but very few 

 to boail; of. 



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