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part of the country ; from whofc fober fyf. 

 tern of inftrudion their fubjed muft cer- 

 tainly derive every necefiary advantage. 



Without defcending to a tedious enunie^ 

 ration of the injuries colts in breaking, or 

 horfes in exercife, receive from pretended 

 h'eakers or w^orthlefs grooms under the efiedl 

 of intoxication, I return to the fubjed: of 

 thofe that are rejiiff or addided to Jtartiiig ; 

 the general mifmanagement of which, I have 

 already defcribed without at all heightening 

 the pidlurc to a degree of exaggeration, and 

 have now to add, that upon a well-founded 

 opinion of the inconiiftency of fuch fevere 

 treatment, I firfl: formed my determination 

 to encounter the cure of thofe defcds, by a 

 a method direElly oppofite^ whenever time 

 fhould afford me applicable opportunity. 



It is, I muft acknowledge, fome little gra- 

 tification of perfonal ambition, to have fuc- 

 ceeded fo well in a coniirmation of the opi- 

 nion I had indulged, refpcciing the erroneous 

 and cruel treatment of horfes of fuch de- 

 fcription ; and with no trifling fatisfadion I 

 communicate the fad, of having been pof- 



feffed 



