26 OBSERVATIONS. 



Let it be remembered, at fuch mart of trJe-' 

 grity^'d, horfe is feldom, if ever, difplayed in a 

 llatc of nature 5 he is thrown into a variety of 

 alluring attitudes, and a profufion oijalfe jire^ 

 by the powerful intermediation of art — that 

 predominant incentive the "whip before, and 

 the aggravating ftimulus of the ginger behind, 

 (better iinderftood by the appellation of '*7%- 

 ging') giving to the horfe all the appearance of 

 fpirit, {in fa6l fear) that the injudicious fpec- 

 tator is too often imprudently induced to be- 

 lieve the fpontaneous effort of nature. 



During the fuperficial furvey, in thofe feiy 

 minutes allowed for infpedion and purchafe, 

 much fatisfadory inveftigation cannot be ob- 

 tained; for, in the general hurry and con- 

 fufion of " fliewing out," the (liort turns and 

 irregular a6lion of the horfe, the political and . 

 occafional fmacks of the whip, the efFed: of 

 emulation in the bidders, the loquacity of the 

 orator, and the fafcinating flourifh of the ham- 

 mer, the qualifications of the objedt is fre- 

 quently forgotten, and every idea of perfedioi> 

 buried in the fpirit of perfonal oppofition. 



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