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by a want of it. Horfes are in their very 

 nature and difpofition fo formed for motion, 

 that they become dull, heavy, and un- 

 healthy without it; of this nothing can af- 

 ford greater demon ftration than the pleafure 

 they difplay in every adtion, when brought 

 irom the dark recefs of a gloomy ftable to the 

 perfed: enjoyment of light, air, and exercife. 

 The natural fvveetnefs of the external air is fo 

 happily fuperior to the ftagnate impurity of 

 the ftable, that mod horfes inftantly exult 

 in the change, and by a variety of ways con- 

 vince you of the preference. 



Survey a fpirited horft with the eye of at- 

 tention, and obferve the aftonifliing difFe- 

 xence before and after his liberation from the 

 manger, to which he is fometimes, under 

 the influence of ftrange mifmanagemcnt, hal- 

 tered for days together without interraiffion. 

 In the ftable you perceive him dejeBed, fpi- 

 ritlefs, and almoft inanimate, without the 

 leaft feeming courage or activity in his com- 

 polition; but when brought into acftion he 

 inftantly aftumcs another appearance, and in- 

 dicates by bodily exultation and exertion, the 

 abfolute falubrity and neccflity of what the 



