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vented (by the continuance of inceffant rain, 

 or deep fall of fnow upon the ground) from 

 taking them out at all, their dreflings are in- 

 creafed, and patiently perfevered in, to en- 

 liven the circulation, promote the fecretions 

 and evacuations, as the only fubftitute for the 

 more fubftantial advantage of regular exer- 

 (cife. 



It is a cafe too frequently obferved, and 

 indeed almoft generally known, that the 

 horfes of gentlemen are fometimes unluckily 

 firbjed:, in all weathers^ to a part of their 

 exercife at the door of an obfcure alehoufe ; 

 for however hofpitable may be the manfion of 

 the mailer, ftill the prevalence of *' damned 

 custom" has rendered it fo predominant, it 

 is in a certain degree fofliionable with thofe 

 faithful and trujiy fervants, who, poffeffing 

 neither innate principle nor perfonal grati- 

 tude, render the moll valuable property of 

 their employers dangeroufly fubfervient to the 

 paltry inconfiilency and gratification of their 

 own inclinations. 



Having omitted, upon the fubjed: of dif- 

 eafed or^z^, to introduce a matter of opinion 



that 



