INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 10, 



only on the confideration that he was the firft 

 of our countrymen who directed his efforts to 

 expofe, and write down, the barbarous and dif- 

 gufting foreign practice of breaking horfes, 

 which then generally prevailed; and on fuch 

 account furely his book muft have been ac- 

 ceptable to that truly excellent, humane, and 

 good-natured prince, to whom it was addrefled. 

 He reprobates, in a becoming and forcible 

 manner, the ufe of lacerating and torturing 

 bits, trammels for pacing, {hoes of advantage, 

 weights on the loins, and all fuch abfurd and 

 illegitimate methods of training the horfe; 

 recommending from right reafon, and his own 

 experience, the adoption of mild bits, and 

 none other than gentle and perfuafive methods, 

 attempered with firmnefs, and occafionally 

 neceflary feverity. This rational and manly 

 practice he confirms with the philofophic ob- 

 servation, that whatever conqueft is obtained 

 by mere violence, is only exterior and tempo- 

 rary. The reader will I truft excufe me, if 

 (feduced by my natural inclination) I am 

 rather diffufe upon the merits of a writer who 

 is the advocate of humanity. 



Baret treats of breeding, and of horfeman- 

 fhip in all its different branches, but not of 

 veterinary medicine. He corrects Morgan in 

 fome peculiar notions, and condemns his con- 

 llant recourfe to phyfic, which, in his own 



c 2 opinion. 



