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highly applicable to the fubjed: he was 

 treating on ; upon which he has introduced 

 no new matter in any dired: chain of con- 

 nexion, tending at all to enlighten the topic 

 or improve the m.anagement, having lite- 

 rally taken up the bufinefs by way of amufe- 

 ment, and laid it down precifely where he 

 found it. 



We might here, v/ith great feeming pro- 

 priety, introduce a long lift of inftru6lions, 

 containing the fliape, make, bone, ftrength, 

 with all the variety of points neceffary (or 

 at leafl likely) in horfe and mare, to confti- 

 tute a progeny of promifing perfedions ; 

 but thofe requifites are fo cxteniively and 

 accurately defcribed between the twelfth 

 and twentieth pages of The Gentleman's 

 Stable Diredtory, Vol. I. and muft be fo 

 nicely implanted in the mind and memory 

 of almoft every fportfman or breeder, that 

 a repetition here m.ight be candidly deemed 

 entirely fiiperfiuous, and confequently ren- 

 der us fubjed to an accufation we wiih moll 

 attentively to avoid. 



Such defcriptions of points and qualifi- 



fications 



