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out of the liable with the ftomach and in- 

 teftines expanded with food and excrement, 

 he cannot encounter rapid exertion with* 

 out much difScuhy and temporary inconveni- 

 ence, till the inteftinal accumulation is con- 

 iiderably reduced and carried off by repeated 

 evacuations ; the work of digeftion fliould 

 alfo be gradually effecSed to relieve the fto- 

 mach, and take from the prefifure that muft 

 inevitably fall upon the lobes of the lungS;, 

 (reftraining their natural elafticity) under 

 which the horfe muft move with a load of 

 difquietude till fuch weight is progreffively 

 removed. 



The certainty of this fa6l every reader of 

 no more than common fagacity will difcover, 

 without further information from me ; when 

 I refer him to his recoUecftion, for the great 

 difficulty a horfe encounters, when put into 

 HASTY ACTION, after receiving his por- 

 tion oi food and water ^ either at morning, 

 noon, or night. From this remark direcftly 

 branches another, equally worthy the confi- 

 deration of travellers ; that is, the almoft 

 univerfal abfurdity of giving, or rather order-^ 

 ing their horfes a pail of cold water (ufually 



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