*216 on the pavement of roads and stables. 
botli comfortable and wholesome ; and one great means of ren- 
dering them so will be obtained by paying attention to the pave- 
ment of stables. Some persons may estimate it at trifling im- 
portance, whether a horse stands or lies upon a hard or a soft 
surface, a rough or a smooth one, a wet or a dry one ; but all 
horse-people well know that these are considerations upon which 
not merely the comfort of the animal in a measure depends, but, 
likewise, his state of health and condition. Every man must admit 
that it is better for a horse to stand upon a level than upon an 
uneven surface ; upon a soft or a yielding one, than upon a flinty 
hard one ; upon a dry rather than upon a wet one. The 
most objectionable of paving materials for stables, as it is for 
streets or roads, is the pebble or cobble stone : hard and cold and 
slippery, and full of inequalities and holes, it harbours number- 
less reservoirs for urinous and fseculent matters, whose vapours 
prove a constant source of contamination of the atmosphere ; 
while the unevenness, and slipperiness of the standing it affords 
the horse cannot fail in time to prove injurious to his legs and feet. 
But it is a cheap pavement — it costs so much per square foot 
less than granite or brick or wood — and it is a durable one; and 
on these accounts, as in public streets so in large stables, wherein 
cavalry or coach or agricultural horses are kept, it is the one com- 
monly preferred. No private individual, however, who has the 
smallest pride in seeing his stable clean and pure, and his horse 
comfortable, should think of having a pebble flooring to it. 
Nothing forms a more level and cleaner flooring for stables 
than brick-on-edge ; but the objections made to it are the ex- 
pense, and the soft or friable nature of the common brick. 
Formerly, Dutch clinkers were in general use for paving stables; 
and most excellent in every respect they were for the purpose. 
But, nowadays, for some reason or other, a genuine Dutch clinker 
— a clinker of that metallic hardness and durability as those 
of former days possessed — is not to be obtained. And, again, 
modern bricks are as inferior to those manufactured by our fore- 
fathers, as the clinkers are unlike what they ought to be : so that, 
in fact, although brick-on-edge must be highly approved as a 
material for paving stables, it is one, of a suitable quality at 
least, hardly in these days of degeneracy and cheapness to be 
tl for love or money” any where purchased. The stables and 
stable-yards of the Pavilion at Brighton are all paved with 
brick-on-edge: the brick is a red one, and from its date of 
manufacture, as well as from the circumstance of its having 
been made for the King’s stables, is, no doubt, of a hard and 
substantial character. The stables formerly attached to Carlton 
House, now belonging to the Queen Dowager, are paved with 
