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unattended to by the parties concerned) it 

 becomes perfedtly applicable, to revert once 

 more to the frequent and inconfiderate prac- 

 tice of uniting horfes and mares, with every 

 joint hereditary blemifh or defect that can 

 render the offspring unpromifing ; with^ 

 out a fingle perfeftion, or encouraging ray 

 of expeftation, to conftitute a jundtion of 

 points, poffibly tending in the leafl: to form 

 a produce even tolerably adequate to the par- 

 ticular purpofe for which it may be intended, 

 when at a proper age it is brought into 

 ufe. Such breeders feldom pay the leaft at- 

 tention to merits^ tempers^ vices , conjlltutmial 

 bleinijhes, or hereditary defed:s of either 

 fire or dam ; the grand and leading objedl is 

 to obtain a horfe or mare of their *' own 

 breed: '' in that happy thought alone is to 

 confift their perfection, and in fuch ex- 

 panded idea is buried every juft or relative 

 conlideration. 



Predominant reafons are by no means 

 wanting to elucidate this ftrange and invin- 

 cible infatuation ; for penury in fome, abfo^ 

 lute inadvertency in others, and palpable 

 indolence in the remaining clafs, affedt the 



annual 



