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Thofe horfes paffing under the denomi- 

 nation of hunters^ but more particularly the 

 common croffes for roadjlers and hacks, can 

 by no m'eans prove fo generally profitable, 

 wht^n all contingencies are taken into confi- 

 dcration ; the length of time they are obliged 

 to be kept on hand and maintained, (till at 

 leaft four years old) with the unfavourable 

 changes they m.ay probably undergo before 

 they can be brought to the ultimate market 

 of emolument moft applicable to their dif- 

 ferent qualifications, render the whole a 

 matter of m.uch greater uncertainty than with 

 horfes of the preceding defcription ; for the 

 unavoidable difficulties of cuttmg, breaking, 

 backing, docking, and nicking, render them 

 ferious operations, the fuccefs of which 

 cannot be afcertained without encountering 

 a chance of misfortune or failure to injure 

 the fubjed: and affedl; his value. 



Notwithftanding thefe confiderations are 

 intended for general application, it muft be 

 remembered they w^ill ever remain fubjed: to 

 tlie different degrees of fuccefs, arifing from 

 the variety of circumftances already explain- 

 ed. Counties, as I have before remarked, 



differ 



