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he is stripped for scraping ; that with being 

 thus worked^ clothed, and stoved, it so affects 

 him at times, that he keeps breaking out iti 

 fresh sweats, that it pours from him, when scrap- 

 ing, as if water liad been tin-own on him. Na- 

 ture cannot bear this. The horses must 

 dwindle. 



I think, in the first place, that the horse has 

 been too long at this sort of work for his sinews ; 

 then the clothing and stoving him forces his juices 

 from him in such quantities, must destroy their 

 spirits, strength and speed; and much clothing 

 jades horses. A horse don't meet with this de- 

 struction when he runs, for then he is likely to be 

 lighter in his carcase, lighter in his feet, having 

 plates on, not shoes, which is wonderfully in fa- 

 vour of his sinews ; and he is without clothes, and 

 not stoved, and his course in running is very sel- 

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