^6S ROAD HORSES. 



poffible, can it be hardly credible, that any 

 rational compofition, after giving thefe truths 

 (that have fallen from- old and experienced 

 obfervers) a moment's reflection will ever lay 

 himfelf open to the feverity of farcafms, or 

 rather juft contemptuous reproofs, that in- 

 ftantly conftitute hirtx a fool or a madman 

 in the eyes of all the world ? Under confi- 

 derations of fo much weighty I can have 

 but little doubt that every random traveller^ 

 (not totally callous to the didates of pru- 

 dence and difcretion) to whofe rumination 

 thefe hints may become fubfervient, will, 

 in future, divert himfclf of his i^ROSTATic 

 FUROR, and conclude his ftage or journey by 

 fuch gradual declination of fpeed for the lall 

 two or three miles, as may bring his horfe 

 tolerably cool into the proper receptacle, 

 without perfevering in a public proof of 

 folly, always productive of danger and cer- 

 tain contempt. 



As It Is fo evidently proper to ride a 

 horfe very moderately at the conclufion of a 

 journey, fo it mufl: prove equally neceffary 

 at the beginning. When a horfe is brought 



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