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THE 



HISTORY AND ART 



O F 



HORSEMANSHIP, 



PART II. 



THROUGH the whole animal world each 

 fpecies of the fame kind differ from one another, 

 according to the Climates in which they are born ; and 

 it is this influence of climate which occafions the al- 

 moft infinite variety of creatures, forms their cha» 

 radters, and feparates and diftinguifhes their qualities ; 

 in which, like children of the fame parent, they in ge- 

 neral refemble one another, but yet, at the fame time, 

 have always fome features and properties peculiar to 

 themfelves, which conftitute the difference between 

 each fpecies. Mankind, with refpedl to Horfes, feem 

 to have ftretched nature beyond the bounds flie ufually 

 prefcribes to herfelf, and by coupling thofe of different 

 countries, have created feveral vew fpecies ; fo that in 

 the mixture and confufion, all original national cha- 



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