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as are ftriftly neceffary, and abfolutely con- 

 ducive to the prefervation of health, though 

 perhaps not at all times properly attended to. 

 For inftance, no fubjed is more highly entitled 

 to a diftincl and feparate invefiigation than the 

 article of 



FEEDING. 



as a peculiar attention to the qualities and 

 quantities of aliment is particularly neceffary 

 to fecure the horfe in a ftate of health and con- 

 dition, fit for the immediate purpofe to which 

 he may be deftined. To produce him at all 

 times ready for the turf^ fields or road^ be- 

 comes neceffary the complete flyle of clean'^ 

 linefsj drejjingy exercife, and various minutiae, 

 that conftitute the prefent perfedt ftate of ftable 

 difcipline ; which never arofe to fo high a 

 pitch of excellence, and can have originated 

 only in a laudable emulation, that feems (by a 

 kind of fympathetic infpiration or enthufiafai) 

 to have taken poffeflion of every groom in 

 ftables of repute, and renders unneceffary the 

 moft trifling obfervatipns upon this ceremony, 



where 



