OBSERVATIONS. 25 



He alfo (from an univerfality of genius, dp 

 doubt,) animadverts upon the art of riding and 

 qualifications of horfemen, their tempers, dif- 

 pofitions, agility, alacrity, fear, fortitude, ^^wry 

 faces ^ and lojing of leather -^ '' defcants largely 

 upon the apparatus of bits, bridles, faddles, 

 &c. entering into the very minutiiE of the 

 riding-fchool, which nov^ would be not only 

 degrading the experimental knowledge of every 

 fportfmanin the kingdom, but abfolutelyy;;;^/^- 

 gling a fubjedl the acknowledged property of 

 A?2geloy AJiley, Hughes ^ and Jones. 



In refpcdl to the anatomical ftruclure of a 

 horfe, nothing can be added upon that fubjed; 

 to excite attention; it has been already fo mi- 

 nutely inveftigated and accurately explained 

 by Gibson and Sn ape, that the leaft room for 

 addition or enlargement is not left for any 

 fucceeding writer who does not (as before 

 obferved) admit the capacities of the folids to 

 be more enlarged, the fluids encreafed, or the 

 heart changed from one fide to the other, fmce 

 the days of thofe authors, who fo well fill- 

 filled to the public the talks they had under- 

 taken. And as the operative part of farrier y 

 is not intended to come within the purpofe of 



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