70 LAMENESS. 



the feverlties of every feafon, whether the bad 

 roads y frojl and jmw of 'winter, or the fultry 

 heat, burning Jan as y 2inAJlinty roads, mjianmery 

 without a liteial or relative confideration to 

 the neceffary, and indeed indifpenfable article 



of REST. 



This perpetual drudgery a horfe of fpirit 

 and bottom will (from the inftindive power 

 of emulation) bear up againft with almoft in- 

 credible fortitude, particularly, if well fup- 

 plied with a fufficiency of hay and corn; but 

 the repeated flruggles and eitorts of nature 

 being at length totally fubdued by the extre^ 

 mity of fatigue, fhe is compelled to link un- 

 der the burthen oi inhuma?i perfecution, and a 

 general inability or univerlal lamenefs becomes 

 the inevitable confequence. The caufe re- 

 quires but very little animadverfion for the 

 purpofe of either explanation or comprehen- 

 .ficn, as it may be with trifling attention and 

 refledion univerfally underfloodj for the ten^ 

 donsy by their almoft perpetual extenfion and 

 contradion (without the lead portion of reft 

 pr inadion to reftore their tone and elafticity) 

 become fo extremely relaxed, as to be ren- 

 dered not only totally inadequate to the pur« 



pofes 



