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lifications. To afcertain the whole of which, 

 no invariable rules can be laid down as an in- 

 fallible guide to certain perfection ; for there are 

 many inftances of very v»^ell iliaped horfes hav- 

 ing proved indilfferent goers, and others fo en- 

 tirely crofs made as to poffefs hardly a good 

 point, being equal in adion to fome of the 

 fineft figures in the kingdom. Rules or inftruc- 

 tions thus liable to exception, (though they 

 are eftabliihed by cuftom, and in a great degree 

 juftified by experience, have yet fome claim 

 to contribution from the perfonal objervation 

 and deliberate judgment c -^ the purchafer; for 

 furely it can require no extraordinary portion 

 oi genius^ or extent of penetration, to diftin- 

 guifh between *' 2^ good goer ' and a bad one : if 

 fo, the adventurers may as probably ftand in 

 need of an inftrudor to point out the differ- 

 ence between a horje and a mare^ 



Notwithftanding thefe inftrudlons may con- 

 tribute to form the judgment of a juvenile 

 and inexperienced purchafer, yet he fliould 

 . never attempt to obtain a high priced horfe 

 from the hammer of a modern repofitory, 

 without the advantage of an affiftant perfediy* 

 adequate to the arduous taik of difcrimination, 



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