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CHAP. XLVIII. 



CONCLUSION. 



WIl. are now arrived at that part of the 

 Treat'ij-ej, in which it is necessary to recapitu- 

 late the contents cf the foregoing Chapters j 

 and we cannot dismiss the subject without ex- 

 pressinij an earnest wish that whatever has 

 been advanced may tend to accomplish the 

 object of our solicitude, which is simply to 

 point out what it is presumed are the best fea- 

 tures in the character of horses, and the quali- 

 ties which are essential to manifest their supe- 

 riority, the advantages that must result from 

 a well established judgement; the policy of 

 conforming to system in every thing that con- 

 cerns the breed *, and, amongst a variety of 

 other suggestions, to guard the ignorant and 

 the unv/ary against the ai;tifices of designing 

 men, and to instruct them in the common 

 rules of choice. These are topics which, 



