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 shown in tlie coloured engraving, and it is such as 

 no person can well mistake. The original drawing in 

 this case was also made for the Jockey Club, and was 

 produced upon the famous trial. On all occasions that 

 presented themselves, which have indeed been nume- 

 rous, it has been compared with the mouths of living- 

 animals, and in no single instance has it been found 

 to be contradicted. This has not only been done with 

 colts, but also with fillies, among which last I may 

 mention Lupine, Mora, Nightcap, Chamois, and Jew 

 Girl. To the plate, therefore, the reader should 

 refer ; and supposing him to have done so, the 

 other indications which the mouth presents between 

 the third and fourth year will now be enlarged 

 upon. The state of the molars at this period 

 may be regarded as demonstrative of the age of the 

 animal. The reader will remember, that according 

 to what has been pointed out, the colt at three years 

 old has five molar teeth on either side of both jaws, 

 and that of these teeth, one only, the third in situ- 

 ation, marked thus, 4* in the frontispiece, is of a 

 temporary nature. Shortly after the upper lateral 

 milk incisors have been cast off, and sometimes pre- 

 vious to that occurrence, the point of the sixth molar 



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