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stables is too warm to be consistent with the Horse's health, which, 

 however well grounded, is common-place, as apj)licable to our stables 

 in general. Granting the reality of this defect in the stables of the 

 Prince, nothing is more easy than the remedy. 



A description of the numerous stables upon the large scale, and of 

 the splendid establishments for Horses in this country would require 

 volumes. It must suffice, that I indicate as specimens, those of His 

 Majesty, of the Dukes of Grafton, Richmond, Devonshire, Bedford, 

 the Earls of Egremont, Darlington, Grosvenor, and Captain Durand. 



The old writers have left us the legacy of some wholesome general 

 rules, to be observed in the choice of groimd, and in the construction 

 of a stable; but particular comforts and useful accommodation are 

 discoveries of a later date. The former insisted much, and indeed 

 with reason, on the nature of the ground, whereon a stable was to be 

 built; that it ought to be firm and hard, and rather on an ascent, that 

 the Horses might have clean and dry ingress and egress, throughout every 

 season ; that the building should be constructed of brick, rather than 

 stone, the latter yielding damps in moist Aveather, inimical to the wind 

 and general health of the Horses. That the thickness of the walls 

 should be two bricks, or at least one and a half; not only for the sake 

 of sufficient warmth in winter, an object congenial with the constitution 

 of the Horse, but in order to keep out the summer's heat. They 

 would have the aspect of the Avindows towards the east and north, 

 that the northern air might be admitted to cool the stables in summer, 

 and the rising sun all the year, more especially in winter. The 

 windows either to be sashed, or to have large casements, that the 

 stream of air admitted might be sufficiently copious ; and to these 

 were to be attached close wooden shutters, for the purposes of warmth, 

 and of rendering the stable dark, when necessary. The neighbourhood 

 of pigs and poultry, and of any thing which could occasion ill smells, 

 so disgusting to the olfactory nerves of the Horse, an animal delighting 

 in cleanliness, was strictly to be avoided. The ancient flooring of the 

 stable was all of stone, but in England, oaken plank laid cross-Avise Avas 

 formerly in use for the stalls. Drains Avere sunk to carry oft' the urine, 



which 



