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■fideration. All the obfervations under this 

 head, having been introduced to demonftrate 



the UTILITY OF EXERCISE IN GENEP.AL, 



and the ills that certainly arife from the vjant 

 of it, more than to lay down fpecinc rules 

 for the daily exercife of particular h or ies ; 

 fuch inftrucSions will be found included un- 

 der the management of Hunters and Road 

 Horses, w^hen we come to enlarge upon 

 thofe different heads. 



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HAS been to the credulous and illiterate 

 oi pajl times y exadly what the fafcinating in- 

 fatuation of Animal magnetism proves 

 to the dupes of the prefent ; like humours, 

 it has been played upon by moil WTiters in ro- 

 tation, without an explanatory line in its favour 

 to produce fatis factory proof oi its mechanical 

 procefs or eftablifced utility. Bracken, who 

 hardly ever gave caufe of complaint for abridg- 

 ing his fubjed:, but generally moft condefcend- 

 ingly fpun it (by a variety of branches) to 

 an almojl indivijible thready deviated in this 

 irJlance from his ufual cuflom ; and after in- 

 troducing 



