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will require confiderably more, or become 

 emaciated by lofs of fleili in frequent per- 

 fpiration. Thefe rules are offered as a kind 

 of general ftandard ; they muft, however, re- 

 main fubjedl to the conditional regulations of 

 thofe who become individually interefted in 

 the event. 



There are numerous caufes to be affigned, 

 why horfes conftantly ufed in travelling (par- 

 ticularly in the winter) and fubjeft to all the 

 viciffitudes of different ffabling upon the 

 roads, moftly bear the appearance of inva- 

 lids, and look fo very different from thofe 

 kept under a fyftematic and invariable mode 

 of management in private ftables. The de- 

 grees of deception, and various ills they have 

 to encounter in many inns, are abfolutely 

 incredible to thofe unacquainted with the 

 arts in fafhionable pradlice ; the deftruflive 

 negligence oiOjllers^ the badnefi of hay, the 

 hardnefs of pump "juater^ and what is flill 

 more to be lamented, the scarcity of 

 CORN, render it a matter of aftonifhment how 

 they are enabled to perform journies of fuch 

 an amazing extent as they are perpetually 

 deftjned to, 



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