OBSERVATIONS. 13 



it in their power to be much better accom- 

 modated. 



Since the original publication of this work 

 objed^ions having been ftarted to the above 

 mode of explanation, as not only too concife 

 for the magnitude of the fubjeft, but equally 

 inadequate to the expedlation of the young and 

 inexperienced, who become inquirers more 

 from the motive of information than amufe- 

 ment ; I (hall endeavour to obviate that difap- 

 pointment by entering more minutely into the 

 defcriptive qualifications, and clearly point out 

 the advantages arifing froni circumfpe6lion to 

 juvenile adventurers in the equeftrian field, of 

 fortune. Exclufive of the before-xnentioned 

 clafs of enlightened pupils, who have improved 

 their theoretic knowledge by pradical expe- 

 rience and difquifition upon the well-worn 

 hacks of Eto?!^ Oxford^ and Cambridge, (en* 

 abling themfelves to animadvert upon fplents, 

 fpavins, windgalls, and ftrains), it mull: be 

 confeffed there are innumerable inferiors who 

 having unluckily no experimental knowledge 

 to improve upon, no advantage to avail them- 

 felves of but literary inftrudion, or dear bought 

 experience, it is undoubtedly juft fuch advice 



fhould 



