English Dictionary

The Regal, or perhaps the hypercritical will have it the Reginal Kennel I am acquainted with in by-gone days, even before Bagshot Heath and its environs were enclosed; I can therefore well conceive, that, from its being originally anything but what it ought, it should be pregnant of kennel lameness, and that simply from the nature of the soil on which it is built, and its consequent subsoil—the two great exciting and existing causes of kennel lameness being damp in all its forms (more especially that which is drawn upwards by the accumulated heat of a number of animals from an unprepared or improperly laid flooring; and so true is this, that the greater the number of dogs in such a situation, the greater the certainty of kennel lameness) and confinement.