should either be exercised within sight of the house, 

 or on some road where they may be now and then 

 seen by some one interested in the management. 

 x\nother injury horses sometimes sustain in being 

 exercised is in their temper ; for, if they commit the 

 most trivial fault, they are punished by the groom 

 without mercv, which in the end makes them resist, 

 and they become restiff: not to mention their heat- 

 ing their horses, and then stopping with them at ii 

 public house to drink. All these evils should be 

 guarded against by circumspection and watchfulness. 

 However a horse is exercised, he should never be 

 brought home hot, otherwise he frequently contracts 

 serious indisposition: this is mere particularly hurt- 

 ful, if, as is frequently the c'^se, he is washed with 

 cold water, and permitted to dry at leisure, which is 

 always a bad ctistom, for the hent and moisture en- 

 courage a determination of blood to the legs, and 

 occasion swelling, and often grease. A horse, there- 

 fore, should be brought home after his exercise as 

 cool as possible, and, if washed, he should be care- 

 fully rubbed dry. Friction may be considered as a 

 species of artificial exercise, and as the best substi- 

 tute; and wheheyer, therefore, circumstances prevent 

 exercise, a grodter share of hand-rubbing should be 

 made use of. 



EYES. 

 The eyes of ihe horse, from his artificial manner 

 of living, are more subject to disease than those of 

 any other animal we are acquainted with. The dis- 

 eases of the human eve are more numerous, but less 

 destructive. 



