INTRODUCTION 



" Doubtless God might create a better berry than the strawberry, 

 but doubtless God never did." — Dr Boteler (a Physician of old). 



THE following remarks on the choice of 

 Horses, their management, and condition, 

 are founded on the experience of upwards of 

 twenty years, some part of which was pur- 

 chased at the price at which that commodity is generally 

 sold ; and although I am aware that we have not much 

 to learn from the "old ones" on this subject, yet it 

 may amuse some of my readers to see how far their 

 ideas and our own accord ; as also to shew in what 

 esteem and honour the Horse was held by them. 



The object of Dr Paley's Natural Theology is to 

 infer intention and design from the general mechanism 

 and evidences of art apparent in the animal frame ; 

 and certainly divine wisdom is in nothing more con- 

 spicuous than in the infinite variety of living creatures 

 of different constructions — every part of them being 

 formed with stupendous skill, and fitted with the 

 utmost nicety to the purposes for which they appear 

 to have been intended. The relative adaptation of 

 their parts to their specific purposes is one of the 

 strongest evidences of design in Him who made them ; 

 and in no instance is this more clearly and positively 

 demonstrated than in the animal of which I am about 



