1.90 ON THE EDUCATION OF THE HORSE. 

 to impose upon by selling to them those of an 

 ordinary kind. In the genealogies of their 

 horses they are even more particular than we 

 are in this country, and it is remarkable that 

 they never suffer a mare to be exported. 



As the present is the age for improvements in 

 the breed of cattle, it may be an object worthy 

 of consideration to improve also the breed of 

 horses, by sending a person properly qualified 

 to the East to purchase horses for that purpose ; 

 this might be done either by a society of gen- 

 tlemen, or at the expence of government*. 



* In regard to breeding from tlie natural stock of this 

 country (Great Britain) it is a question wortliy of the .at- 

 tention of the physiologist, -whether we should not some- 

 times have a better produce from the promiscuous inter- 

 course of animals, than from the studied selections of 

 breeders, especially when it may be supposed that, among 

 the great proportion of castrated males, some might, if 

 they had been left perfect, be in every respect better 

 adapted to breed from, than those which are appropriated, 

 from necessity, to that purpose ? The method which is 

 generally adopted to improve the breed of any particular 

 species, is by crossing them with those of a better kind; 



but 



