The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . m hale and fit for use, why,get^ rid of him, as, to borrow a stable phrase, he must berotten. When the weather will not permit of exercise inthe dry, put on a soft bit with players, for two hours in themorning, and two hours in the afternoon; by an adherenceto which rule digestion is promoted, the loss of exercisecompensated, and, by the amusement the horse finds in thebit, he is not only kept out of mischief, but the carriage ofthe head is greatly facilitated. Exercise improves theappetite and strengthens the powers of digestion in a
The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . m hale and fit for use, why,get^ rid of him, as, to borrow a stable phrase, he must berotten. When the weather will not permit of exercise inthe dry, put on a soft bit with players, for two hours in themorning, and two hours in the afternoon; by an adherenceto which rule digestion is promoted, the loss of exercisecompensated, and, by the amusement the horse finds in thebit, he is not only kept out of mischief, but the carriage ofthe head is greatly facilitated. Exercise improves theappetite and strengthens the powers of digestion in a sur-prising manner; hunger becomes keen; and food is takenwith eager relish, which is well known to be one of thebest signs of health. [Tot QUADRUPEDS. Op the two hundred species of Quadrupeds which Buffonsupposes to exist, he calculates, that about ninety are origi-nal inhabitants of the Old Continent, and about seventy ofthe New, and that forty may be accounted common to the period when he wrote, the number of species hasbeen much AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS,AMERICAN VARYING HARE. Sir L EP US VIRGINMNUS. —Harlan. Varying Hare, Pennant Quad. Warden Descrip. U. p. 635. Lewis & Clarke, 2. p. 178. Lepits Vir-ginianiis, Harlan. Faun. am. 196,300. Prairie Hare,Richardson, Faun. am. bor.—Philadelphia Museum. Few of the genera of quadrupeds present more obstaclesto the naturalist, than that of Lepus; among the species ofwhich there are so many points of similarity and almostidentity, that it is a task of no slight difficulty to distinguishwhether the differential characters which have been assignedto them, are really specific, or only arise from the modify-ing influence of climate and habitat. But although the seve-ral species of this genus are so analogous as to constituteone of the most natural groups of the mammalia, they arespread over a wide extent of the globe, exhibiting, how-ever, in every country, the same characteristics. When weconsider the gr
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