OBSERVATIONS. 25 



He alfo (from an univerfallty of genius, no 

 doubt), animadverts upon the art of riding and 

 qualifications of norfemen, their tempers, dif- 

 pofitions, agility, alacrity, fear, fortitude, '^ wry 

 *^ faces, and lojing of leather -y' defcants largely 

 upon the apparatus of bits, bridles, faddles, 

 &c. entering into the very minutiae of the 

 riding fchool, which now would be not only 

 degrading the experimental knowledge of every 

 fportfman.in the kingdom, but abfolutely/;;;^^- 

 gliftg a fubjed: the acknowledged property of 

 Angek^ Aft ley, Hughes ^ and Jojies. 



In refpedl to the anatomical ftrudure of a 

 horfe, nothing can be added upon that fubje<ft 

 to excite attention ; it has been already io 

 minutely inveftigated and accurately explained 

 by Gibson and Snape, that the leaft room for 

 addition or enlargement is not left for any 

 Succeeding writer who does not (as before ob« 

 ferved) admit the capacities of the folids to be 

 more enlarged, the fluids increafed, or the 

 heart changed from one fide to the other, (ince 

 the days of thofe authors, who fo well ful- 

 filled to the public the talTcs they had under- 

 taken. And as the operative part of farrier y 

 is not intended to come within the purpofe of 

 our prefent plan, but is entirely fubmitted to 



thofe 



