IV PREFACE. 



interval of time between the first and second publi- 

 cation of them have rendered necessary. 



The Treatise on Horse-Dealing, with which the 

 volume concludes, is now published for the first 

 time. In this part of the work the Author has 

 enforced the necessity for " caveat emptor^'''' and 

 given a recital of some of the first Legal and Vete- 

 rinary authorities on the question of Soundness and 

 Unsoundness of Horses. With this addition, it 

 is believed the volume will be found to form an 

 acceptable manual of information in all that relates 

 to the Horse and the Hound. 



Edinburgh, May 1842. 



