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be almoft invariable refpeding manner, length 

 of time and diftance ; though it muft be 

 univerfally known fuch circumflances be- 

 come greatly dependent upon the feafon of 

 the year, the ftate of the weather, the feverity 

 of the preceding chace, and the condition of 

 the horfe. 



Under fuch certain and unavoidable fluc- 

 tuation, conditional inftruftions only can be 

 admitted ; fubjed: as they muft ever remain 

 to the contingencies of inevitable diveriifica- 

 tion. Horfes on the intervening days, dur- 

 ing the Jirji and hji weeks of each feafon, 

 when the days are long and feafons mild, 

 Ihould be taken out twice a day ; for inftance, 

 from eight to nine in the morning, and from 

 four to five in the afternoon : giving them 

 their proper portion of water at fuch pond or 

 pool of foft water as is moft remarkable for 

 its falubrious properties in the neighbourhood 

 of refidence. Let the exercife be moderate, 

 and equally divided before and after the wa- 

 ter j remembering, as already obferved, to 

 regulate the length and Jlrength of the exercife 

 by the condition of the horfe. 



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