ON THE EXTERNAL CONFORMATION. 5 

 Hence we find every man adapts his ideas 



of perfection to the pecuHar conformation of his 



own horse. 



For instance, the proprietor of along legged 

 horse will tell you, that he is thereby better en- 

 abled to clear his leaps; while, on the other 

 hand, another, who has a short legged horse, 

 assures you, that no other can get so well through 

 a heavy road; a third, who possesses a long 

 backed horse, declares that they must have 

 length somewhere; and, finally, the dealer in 

 horses, who keeps fifty in his stables, sums up 

 the business on a broad scale, and answers all 

 your objections by asserting that they will go in 

 all forms. 



It would be thoroughly incompatible with 

 the object of the present work, to suu^er it to be 

 biassed by such vague opinions, generated rather 

 by partial comparison, than by actual experi- 

 ment. 



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