iqs stabling. 



every part of the frame. By fiich contrafl 

 they are inftantly liable to a fudden collap- 

 fion of the porous fyftem, which locking up 

 the perfpirative matter, fo violently propelled 

 to the furface, throws it back upon the cir- 

 culation with redoubled force ; where na- 

 ture being too much overloaded to admit 

 its abforption, it becomes immediately fixed 

 upon the eyes or lungs, laying a very 

 fubftantial foundation of difeafe and dif* 

 quietude. 



If fuch horfe is put into ftrong exercife, 

 he foon proves himfelf inadequate to either 

 a long, or an expeditious journey ; for whe- 

 ther the body is overburthened with weak 

 and flatulent food and water at fetting out, 

 jaded with early fatigue, to which he has 

 not been accuftomed, or debilitated with 

 the ftable difcipline we have fo minutely 

 defcribed, the effed: is nearly the fame. If 

 his journey is of any duration, or his exer- 

 tions of any great magnitude, it is no un- 

 common thing to find he has fallen Jick^ 

 lame, or tired upon the road ; and under 

 the worft of curfes, a bad charaBer, is fre- 

 quently fold to the firft bidder ; under whofe 



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