INTRODUCTION, 



jCxFTER the many publicatLons upqn 

 equeftrian fubjcds, it may appear to fome 

 rather extraordinary that matter either new^ 

 injiru&ive, ox entertaining^ can be produced 

 to excite the ferious attention even of thofe 

 who are the moft curious in their par- 

 ticular ftuds and different appropriations j 

 but fuch admiration will as readily fubfide, 

 upon a retrofpedlive allufion to the origi- 

 nal motives of the various WTiters, the 

 almofl: unlimited extent of the fubjed:, the 

 conftantly increafing eftimation of the 

 object treated on, and the confignment to 



perpetual 



