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 of its fourth year. The original sketch for this plate 

 was taken from the mouth of a horse called the 

 General, the property of Sir Samuel Spry. To test 

 it, however, it has been largely applied, and in 

 every case it has been confirmed. If the mention of 

 names is here required, I may repeat those of Black- 

 bird, Marquiss of Conyngham, and a host of others. 

 The plate, therefore, may be regarded as fully es- 

 tablished, and the reader, without fear, may depend 

 upon its correctness. As is shown in the engraving, 

 the lateral incisors, at this age, touch, but neverthe- 

 less do not meet so as to be of any service in nipping 

 the food. It is of some importance to attend to this 

 peculiarity, inasmuch as were the presence of the 

 indicative teeth alone remarked, an animal wanting 

 some months to be four years old might be purchased 

 for one that was rising five. 



45. At four years, four pairs of horse teeth are 

 well up, hut the corner milk teeth are retained. 

 Such a state of the mouth is very characteristic 

 of the age, and not likely to be mistaken. The 

 appearance which the teeth present, if viewed 

 from the front when the lips are separated, is 



