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PREFACE, 



IT IS a truth generally acknowledged and 

 univerfally lamented that, amidH: all the 

 improvements of the prefent age, none has re- 

 ceived fo little advantage from the rays of re- 

 finement as the Art of Farriery, And, it muft 

 be likewife confefTcd, it is an ill compliment to 

 a country abounding with fportfrnen, and thofe 

 remarkable for their extreme liberality, that 

 the intelledual faculties of many diftingui/hed 

 members of the diiFerent learned focieties fhould 

 be abforbed in abftrufe contemplations and 

 intenfe lucubrations upon the antiquity of a coin 

 the probofcis of an elephant, the genus of an ex^ 

 eticy or the beautiful variegations of a butt erf y, 

 whilft a branch of fcience and ftudy, involving 

 the health, fafety, and prefervation, of the 

 naoft beautiful and efteemed animal this king- 

 dom has to boaft, is neglected as derogatory to 

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