338 HUNTERS. 



fubjedl to abflrufe reafoning or remote con- 

 vidiion. 



It has been repeatedly proved under the 

 article of Exercise and its effedts, that 

 a want of ad: ion (when properly fup plied 

 with food) overloads not only the franie 

 with aliment, but the circulation -with a 

 fuperflux of nutrition ; it muft therefore evi- 

 dently appear, by parity of reafoning, that 

 great and conftant exertions in the chace 

 muft necelTarily exhauft the fluids by per- 

 fpiration, as the contents of the inteftines 

 by evacuation; and unlefs the fyftem is 

 fufficiently fupplied with nutritious, refto- 

 rative, and healthy aliment (the beft in its 

 kind) for the due fupport of thefe frequent 

 difcharges, impoverifhcd blood, lofs of 

 flejQi, dejeded fpirit, and bodily debilitation, 

 muft prove the inevitable confequence. 



After the moft attentive obfervation I 

 have been able to beftow for a number of 

 years, cultivating an anxious defire to difco- 

 ver the proper criterion of fupport and gra- 

 tification for horfes of this defcription, who 



are 



