CONCLUSION. 



JN O amusement can be more instructive, ot 

 more acceptable to men of rank and fortune, 

 than the cultivation of natural history ; and no 

 branch of it can be more interesting than that 

 which relates to the horse. 



How barren, indeed, of delight is the con- 

 dition of him who passes through life an incuri- 

 ous spectator, ignorant of the common proper- 

 ties even of objects which are most familiar 

 to him, and which are indispensably necessary 

 to his existence. 



His mind, perpetually recurring on itself 

 for support, tries in vain to shake off the burden 



of 



