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annual increafe to a certainty ; the fame un- 

 accountable prejudice that prompts them to 

 commence breeders, without a confiftent 

 qualification in horfe or mare^ influences 

 them alfo to referve a colt of fuch breed to 

 perform the ofiice of Stallion, in the 

 vicinity of their oVv^n refidence, that the 

 abfurdity began by themfelves may be per- 

 fevered in by others : this prodigy^ with all 

 his imperfedions, is permitted to cover gra^ 

 tis^ or for a trifling pecuniary conlideration 

 to the fervant, (as a complete gratification 

 of the owner's ambition in breeding) and 

 proving a local convenience, is readily em- 

 braced by the ina6tive clafiTes before defcribed, 

 while others of more prudence y fplrit ^ emu- 

 latloriy or confiflency of conduct, will rather 

 fend a mare fifty miles, and encounter 

 any confequent e^cpenfe, to obtain a horfe 

 whofe fhape, make, bone, ftrength, and ac- 

 tion are calculated to correfpond with the 

 dam, promifing to produce a colt or filly, 

 adequate in figure and value to the purpofe 

 originally intended. 



Notwithflanding thefe neceffary precau- 

 tions, the long llanding adage of there.be- 



