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We will suppose a farmer has a fairish sort of non- 

 descript mare, that he rides and drives in his taxed- 

 cart — is, in short, ridden and driven at times by all 

 sorts of persons, male and female, that are about the 

 farm. One might suppose that her master enter- 

 tained the idea that being a mare, it was by nature 

 intended that she should breed. That the female 

 was and is by Nature so intended, admits of no doubt ; 

 but qucere, had Nature been left alone would she 

 ever have produced such an animal as the mare the 

 farmer rides ? Nature usually keeps animals to their 

 kind, from the Arab to the Scotch shelty. Thus a 

 good sort of their kind is kept up : it is man who, 

 by all sorts of crosses and a heterogeneous mixture 

 of breeds, produces an animal of no distinct breed at 

 all, most probably such a one, or perhaps the 

 precise one, the farmer rides ; and he, in selecting a 

 sire somewhat similarly bred, perpetuates this breed 

 of nondescripts ad infinitum — animals *' of no mark 

 or likelihood." 



We will suppose the farmer keeps the infoal mare, 

 and herself and foal, as soon as weaned, moderately 



