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mifery may be rendered perfed: by every ad- 

 ditional contribution of folly, each horfe is 

 abfolutely loaded with a profufion of body 

 cloths, but perhaps more to gratify the often- 

 tation or difplay the opulence of the owner, 

 than any intentional utility to the horfc. 

 The flieet, quarter piece, bread cloth, body 

 roller, and perhaps the hood, are all brought 

 forward to give proof of perfevering atten- 

 tion and unremitting induftry. In this ftate 

 fuch horfes are found upon critical examina- 

 tion, to be in an almoft perpetual languid 

 perfpiration ; fo debilitated, depreffed, and 

 inactive, for want of pure air and regular 

 exercife, that they appear dull, heavy, and 

 inattentive, as if confcious of their imprifon- 

 ment and bodily pcrfecution. 



The efTedl of this mode of treatment foon 

 becomes perceptible to the judicious eye of 

 obfervation ; .the carcafe is feen unnaturally 

 full and overloaded, for want of thofe gra- 

 dual evacuations promoted by gentle mo- 

 tion j the legs fvvell, becoming ftiff and 

 tumefied, till nature, in her utmoft efforts 

 for extravafation, terminates in either cracks, 

 fcratches^ gr^afe, or fome one of the many 



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