300 HUNTERS, 



thofe very few in which the ftate of the blood 

 is not fymptomatically afFeded by the difeafe; 

 as fiatulent or inflammatory cholic^ Jirangury^ 

 and worms. But the better to exculpate my- 

 felf from the accufation or even unjuft fuf- 

 picion of indulging the fliadow of inclination 

 to arraign the authority, or fport with the 

 judgment I fo very much refpedt ; let us cha- 

 ritably adopt AN ALTERNATIVE, and fup- 

 pofe, what is not only pojjible but probable, 

 that as the horfes in that country differ fo 

 very materially from our's, (as thofe can tef- 

 tify who have vifited the fpot, and recoiled; 

 their appearance) why miay not the fluids 

 partake of the contrail ? and their properties 

 not being fo eafily or accurately anahzed as 

 in the more fertile regions of the fouth ? the 

 line of diftindion we may naturally conclude 

 is circumfcribed by the vermicular boundary 

 of the Tweed, ecnftituting other diverfities of 

 equal admiration. 



' From this digreffion, fo unavoidably ne- 

 ceffary to juflify my former recommenda- 

 tion of Bleeding, under proper reftric- 

 tions, we return^ to the confideration of 



Purging j 



