OBSERVATIONS. 17 



tigatlng his properties; thereby efcaping bad 

 action, iamenefs, ftartmg, reflivenefs, and other 

 incidental imperfedions. He then moil atten- 

 tively proceeds to the more minute and neccf- 

 fary cxamir;ation of the ftate of the eyes^ windy 

 knees, fplenCs, fpavinsy windgalhy ringbones^ 

 quittorSy cracks or greaje-y defcending laftly to 

 xki^feety thereby avoiding corns^ runnmg thrnjhy 

 canker, and additional defeds that young and 

 inexperienced purchafers frequently fuppofe 

 unworthy confideration or refiedion, facrificing 

 the whole at the fhrine o'i figure 2Xi^JaJlnon. 



In the choice and purchafe of a horfe, fe- 

 leded for whatever purpofe, it is an invariable 

 and eftabliflied cuftom with the beft judges to 

 come as near the following points and advan- 

 tages as circumflances will permit, thereby 

 gaining in each an additional ftep to the fum- 

 mit of perfedlion. For the defired or intended 

 height, lize, and figure, being afcertained and 

 procured, all other neceffary points fo ftridly 

 correfpond (in a certain degree of uniformity), 

 that what gives fpeed and Jirength to a large 

 horfe will proportionably contribute fimilar 

 advantages to a fmaller. 



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