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or fwelled, but clean, dry, and hairy; the feet 

 neither too high, nor too flat, and of fize ap- 

 parently a fufficient bafe for the weight they 

 have to fuftain; hoofs of colour dark and 

 fhining; without feams or wrinkles, tough and 

 ftrong. not hard like oak ; foot internally con- 

 cave, foal hard, but not (hrunk, heels wide, 

 and of middling height; frog not too large 

 or flelhy, but tough and found; the feet of 

 equal fize, mould ftand exactly parallel, fo that 

 the front or toe incline neither inward nor 

 outward; the fore-feet mould (land perpen- 

 dicular to the cheft, not too much under it, 

 and they mould be lefs wide apart than the 

 fore-arms ; the legs mould not be loaded with 

 hair. 



The age of a horse, it is fufhciently 

 well-known, is only determinable with preci- 

 fion by his teeth ; and that rule fails after a 

 certain period, and is fometimes equivocal and 

 uncertain, even within that period. A Horfe 

 has forty teeth; namely, twenty-four double 

 teeth or grinders, four tuflies, or fingle teeth, 

 and twelve front teeth, or gatherers. Mares 

 have no tuflies, in general. The mark, which 

 difcovers the age, is to be found in the front 

 teeth, next the tuflies. In a few weeks, with 

 fome, the foal's twelve fore teeth begin to 

 (hoot; thefe are {hort, round, white, and eafily 

 diftinguiihable from the adult or Horfe's teeth, 



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