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diforders arifing from an impurity, vifcidity, 

 or acrimony in the blood. Ttie hoofs, by 

 being almoft invariably fixed to the conftant 

 heat of the accumulating dung before de- 

 fcribed, acquires a degree of contradion in- 

 dicating hoof- bound lamenefs. The eyes 

 frequently give proof of habitual weaknefs, 

 in a watery difcharge from the continual ir- 

 ritation of the volatile effluvia, the dilatation 

 and contra(flion of the eye in fearch of light, 

 the heat of the body, &c. all tending to 

 conftitute a frame direftly oppofite in health, 

 vigour, and appearance, to thofe whofe coji- 

 dition is regulated by a very different fyftem 

 of ftabularian management. 



The evils arifing from this miftaken treat- 

 ment are only yet enumerated in part, being 

 thofe that evidently appear upon a fuperficial 

 furvey of the flables and their contents ; 

 others become difcernible upon being brought 

 into adlion. They are certainly lefs enabled 

 to encounter fatigue than any horfes in the 

 kingdom ; from fo conftant an exiftence in 

 the abfolute Jumes of a hot -hath, they never 

 an be expofed to the external air in a cold^ 

 "Wetj or ijuinter feafon, without danger to 



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