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cations, ftanding therefore hot onlj incon-^ 

 troverted, but in pofTeffion of general ac- 

 ^uiefcence, to ^ho/e pages the juvenile or 

 inexperienced inquirer is referred for any 

 additional information he may wifli to ob- 

 tain ; this reference being juftified only upon 

 the natural prefumption, that there will 

 be very few purchafers of the prefent work, 

 but what are holders of the firft Volume of 

 the Stable Directory likewife. 



Having there fo extenfively fhewn what 

 are the requifites defirable to obtain, we no\V 

 proceed to explain v/hat the defedls are moil 

 teceflary to be difcovered in either (ire ot 

 dam, that the poffible retention of heredi- 

 tary taints, defe^ls^ or dejormitles^ may be the. 

 better avoided ; for although it remain^, and 

 in all probability ever will, a matter of am- 

 biguity why an unblemifhed horfe and mare^ 

 may produce a colt <St filly full of difeafe or 

 deformity^ it by no means follows that a dif- 

 eafed or deformed fire and dam are equally 

 likely to produce a progeny of perfection „ 

 This being unequivocally admitted, (as by 

 every impartial inveftigator of nature, if cer- 

 tainly muft be) it will undoubtedly prove 



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