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curious remarks, equally sublime, and as 

 highly applicable to the subject he was 

 treating on ; upon which he has introduced 

 no new matter in any direct chain of con- 

 nection, tending at all to enlighten the topic 

 or improve the management, having lite- 

 rally taken up the business by w^ay of amuse- 

 ment, and laid it down precisely where he 

 found it. 



We might here, with great seeming pro- 

 priety, introduce a long list of instructions, 

 containing the shape, make, bone, strength, 

 with all the variety of points necessary (or 

 at least likely), in horse and mare, to consti- 

 tute a progeny of promising perfections ; 

 but those requisites are so extensively and 

 accurately described between the tw^elfth and 

 twentieth pages of The Gentleman's Stable 

 Directory, Vol. I. and must be so nicely 

 implanted in the mind and memory of al- 

 most every sportsman or breeder, that a re- 

 petition here might be candidly deemed en- 

 tirely superfluous, and consequently render 

 us subject to an accusation we wish most at- 

 tentively to avoid. 



Such descriptions ox points and qualifi- 



