28 BREEDING. 



differ fo very much in their fituation and 

 fertility for breeding, that many will not 

 produce horfes of fize, and the defirable 

 qualifications, at even treble their r^W/ value ^ 

 when brought to the very higheft market 

 for difpofal : for it is a fad: indifputably 

 certain, that nothing but a part of the king- 

 dom remarkable for the abundance and luxu- 

 riance of its herbage, can ever produce 

 ftock of fize and value to render breeding a 

 matter of emolument ; the attempt, there- 

 fore, in unfavourable fituations, muft ever 

 recoil upon the adventurer with additional 

 difappointment. 



Thefe obfervations, fo immediately rela- 

 tive to the idea of profit and lofs, are by no 

 jneans introduced to reflrain or deter thofe 

 from the pra6tice, who are fo unavoidably 

 circumftanced in Jituation, as to breed under 

 fuch difadvantage from the motives of amtife- 

 tnent only, where pecuniary compenfation is 

 no way concerned or expedted ; it is, how- 

 ever, to be prefumed, that occafional refe- 

 rences to the inftruftions hereafter incul- 

 cated, upon an extenfive fcale for the im- 

 provement of ftock in general (without again 

 z adverting 



