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growth, or the formation of flefh and hone 

 fo generally defirable. 



However haftily fome part of the world 

 may be inclined to decide, (as every obferver 

 has a right to indulge his own opinion) there 

 can be no doubt but to the inconliderate 

 pradlice of inadvertently leaving mares and 

 colts to fubfift upon bare la?id, or barren 

 paftures, for the firft fummer, and a fuccef- 

 five fcene of poverty in the enfuing winter, 

 are we in fome degree indebted for a propor- 

 tion of thofe horfes I have before defer ibed, 

 as coming under no denomination, applicable 

 to no particular purpofe, never rifing to any 

 confiderable worth, and doing fo little credit 

 to the breeder, that you can never difcover 

 (if you were fo inclined) from whence they 

 came, after they are once out of his polTef- 

 fion. 



In this miftaken notion and ridiculous fyf- 

 tem of breeding fails every penurious and 

 mercejiary breeder, who, prompted by his 

 own narrownefs of difpofition, affedls to be- 

 lieve, there is little or no difference between 

 filling and feedings confidering a run after 



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