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in the heels, or poverty in the frame, ar** 

 immediately furveyed with, the eye of at- 

 tentive infpediion ; this oblique but accurate 

 furvey as certainly terminates to the difcre- 

 dit of the mailer as the prejudice of the 

 fervant, leaving no favourable impreffion of 

 their ftable management at home, or equef- 

 trian prudence in the field* 



External deficiency is not the oiily incon- 

 venience arifing from imiproper condition ; 

 the concomitant ills refulting from it are 

 not unfrequently attended with the mofl: 

 ferious confequences. Horfes for the very 

 fevere and ftrong chaces v.'ith Stag or Fox 

 fhould have both the blood and body regulated 

 to the higheft degree of purity and perted:ion ; 

 fuch fyllem of information may be readily ac- 

 quired by proper attention to the neceffary 

 inculcation and judicious obfervation, previ- 

 ous to the commencement of the feafon. 

 This fad:, founded upon the criterion of 

 experience^ naturally leads us into an inquiry 

 Vv^hat thofc preparations are, and tliC necefiity 

 for their introdiKftion : tht'c ne fiiall con- 

 feqiiently advert to, b«M not witKout an ob- 

 lique remembrance of, and reference to, thofe 

 Cynical cavilifts who, (apprehending no dan- 



