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for three hours ; he comes in half baked, choked with 

 dust, and in a perfect state of lassitude, from the 

 intense heat. Such a horse would perform the jour- 

 ney with less inconvenience, if he did the nine miles 

 in about an hour, had his mouth washed out and 

 cooled, and got the distance over in two, and for 

 these reasons : he would meet a current of air w^hile 

 going ; the other would all along, from the slow pace 

 feel as if standing in a hot bake-house, with no air 

 at all ; increased perspiration, which increased pace, 

 would produce, carries off that internal and external 

 burning heat, that is so distressing, and likely to 

 produce fever to man or beast; a fair pace leaves the 

 dust behind, instead of the animal being choked 

 with it, and heat bearable for tw^o hours becomes all 

 but insupportable in three ; but let the reader bear in 

 mind I premise what I say by supposing him to have 

 a horse to whom nine miles an hour is not a dis- 

 tressing pace ; if he has one to whom it would be, so 

 ungifted an animal must be content to be half baked 

 ere he arrives at his journey's end. Against what 

 I have said, a lady, or a very fat, inactive man, might 



