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in their favour. His pamphlet affords good 

 information on the origin of the racing breed 

 in this country ; and had fome of his remarks 

 been attended to, many a thoufand, which 

 has been groundlefsly lavifhed away in the 

 ftuds, might have been fpared. He has written 

 with confiderable (kill on the mechanic powers 

 of motion in thofe living engines called Horfes ; 

 and, on all the above-recited topics, if he has 

 not abfolutely hit the exact, medium of truth, 

 he has at leaft made a very near approach, and 

 has faid enough at once to animate and afliil 

 fucceeding enquirers. 



To this fhort, but meritorious lift of writers 

 on Horfes, during the prefent century ; which, 

 by general confent, are efteemed our Englifii 

 veterinary dailies ; I think in juftice ought to 

 be added the refpeclable names of Berenger, 

 and Lord Pembroke. The work of the 

 former is a Treatife on the Military Manege, 

 ancient and modern ; a fubject on which I 

 poflefs no information from experience. My 

 Lord Pembroke's book ought to be confulted 

 by every gentleman who keeps a horfe, and 

 who wifhes to have that moil important part 

 of him, the foot, in a ftate of prefer vation. 



Mr. Clarke fills the refpe£lable office of his 

 Ivlajefly's farrier for Scotland. He has pub- 

 lifhed two treatifes ; on fhoeing, and on the 

 prevention of difeafes in horfes ; and has ac- 

 quitted 



