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 amount of attrition. The corner tooth at five years 

 old, looks young, and is principally covered by the 

 membraneous crusta petrosa, which give to it a dark 

 aspect, as though it were encrusted with tartar, little 

 of the enamel being to be seen, while the shape of 

 the gum is also characteristic. The five year old 

 mouth, therefore, is easy of recognition, the shelly 

 character of the corner teeth being very marked and 

 not subject to much eccentricity in its figure. As 

 five however, is the age when, for general purposes, 

 the majority of high priced horses are brought into 

 the market, the changes which take place before and 

 after this period have been illustrated in the coloured 

 engravings. When the animal is near to or rising 

 five, the corner teeth are dark coloured, and though 

 they touch, nevertheless their edges are not fairly 

 together. The superior surfaces exhibit no tables, 

 and the general aspect is such as is depicted in the 

 engraving; the original of which was made from 

 recollection of the appearances presented by the 

 mouth of Mr. Payne's Rebel, which horse was seen 

 at Hampton Court. The drawing was more recently 

 corroborated and corrected by the mouth of a fine 

 young black hunter, the property E. C. Crowley, Esq. 



