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error than nature. The animal body may be 

 compelled by force to endure the mod im- 

 proper and ultimately injurious treatment ; the 

 horfe has not the power of defcribing his pain, 

 his fignals of complaint and diflrefs are anfwered 

 by the whip ; his increafing maladies are un- 

 heeded, h^ is driven onward, until outraged 

 and overburdened nature finks outright. No 

 conclufions worthy of dependance can be drawn 

 from a few apparently fuccefsful inftances, and 

 it accords with general and rational experience, 

 that the common and defl:ru6live maladies of 

 poft-horfes are known to arife from alternate 

 extremes of heat and cold ; and that colds with 

 them do not always find' a vent at the noftrils, 

 but their effe6ls remain latent for a confiderable 

 time, in different parts of the body. It is an 

 ill-judged fpeculation to double the common 

 riflvs of hackney horfes for the fake of fupport- 

 ing a lame hypothefis, or of faving a little 

 labour. Examples of the fatal effe6ls of ex-, 

 pofing the animal body, whether human or 

 brute, in this way, are innumerable. It is well 

 known to cofl: the lives of^ a vaft number of 

 Ruffians annually, and to debilitate and gra- 

 dually confume moft of thofe who are addicled 

 to it. At the famous ffables of Chantilly, in 

 the ariftocratic times, fome of the fineft Englifli 

 horfes were annually facrificcd by this cold 

 imraerfion; and it has been reported of the 



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