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the strength of his horse to his own weight ; 

 with many other o^bservations of equal saga- 

 city and penetration. But, as I indulge a 

 much higher opinion of the understandings 

 of those to whose serious inspection this trea- 

 tise will become subject, I shall not irritate 

 the feelings of any sportsman, who unluckily 

 rides a great weight, by reminding him what 

 kind of horse is most likely to reconcile the 

 inconvenience, but naturally conclude every 

 reader will exert his judgment for the pro- 

 curation of such purchase as will prove most 

 likely to become adequate to the purposes 

 for which he is intended. 



He also (from an universality of genius, no 

 doubt) animadverts upon the art of riding and 

 qualifications of horsemen, their tempers, 

 dispositions, agility, alacrity, fear, fortitude, 

 ** ivry faces, and losing of leather \" descants 

 largely upon the apparatus of bits, bridles, 

 saddles, &c. entering into the very minutiae 

 of the riding-school, which now would be not 

 only degrading the experimental knowledge 

 of every sportsman in the kingdom, but abso- 

 lutely smuggling a subject the acknowledged 

 yymx^Qvty oi Angelo^Astleyi Hughes^ ^nd Jones. 



