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afford the highest gratification in return, to 

 receive corroborating and well authenticated 

 proofs of the consistency of its reformation, 

 and that the confidence so generously placed 

 in the medical instructions, has suffered no 

 prostitution or disgrace, amidst their nu- 

 merous trials and critical investigations. 

 However liberal the candid and impartial 

 part of the v/orld may have been in their 

 encomiums upon the original work (or con- 

 gratulations to the author), its contents could 

 only appear to the public as mere matter of 

 conjecture, (upon the propriety of which 

 every reader had a substantial reason to en- 

 tertain doubts), till such doubts were remov- 

 ed by a repetition of success, and a palpable 

 confirmation of the acknowledged utility of 

 improvement in practice. 



Naturallv revertin«' to one or other of the 

 cases already recited, it must be perfectly 

 apposite to repeat the absiuxlity, the won- 

 derful inconsistency, of submitting the ma- 

 nagement of valuable (or iixdeed any) horses, 

 to the strange and inconsiderate experiments 

 of those who have no one qualification but 

 their unbounded confidence (or rather im- 



