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of bone and Jhrength fufficient to carry him 

 '^ AFTER any pack of hounds in the king^ 

 dom'^ Having before bid adieu to medical 

 inyftery and anatomical defcription, we do 

 not mean to renew the fubjed; by a com- 

 parative detail of mufcles and tendons, with 

 their appertaining confideiations ; but leave 

 every reader to make up his own mind upon 

 the qualifications and kind of horfe moft ap- 

 plicable to his idea of the chace, and inten- 

 tion of riding wath oi qjter the hounds; 

 proceeding to a communication of fuch re- 

 marks as, properly attended to, may be pro- 

 ductive of their different degrees of utility. 



It may be remembered, that the different 

 fubjeds of PHYSIC, EXERCISE, and con- 

 dition have all been feparately coniidered, 

 and their advantages accurately explained ; 

 as may be perceived by application to the 

 index of either volume for information upon 

 any particular head. We now confequently 

 arrive at the commencement of the hunting 

 feafon, when, meeting in the field, every 

 countenance betrays a heart elate with the 

 general effufion of joy that is to enfue. Pre- 

 vious to farther animadverfion upon which, 



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