man who is not qualified to give one. But 

 now I am getting out of my province ; this 

 book is written for the purchaser. 



In the following pages I have endeavoured 

 to supply the horseman with what he must often 

 have felt the want of. I believe there is no 

 separate treatise in the English language on 

 the examination of purchases, and, with the 

 exception of the author of the " Horse" in 

 the " Library of Useful Knowledge,'* our 

 authors are all too scholastic, and too volumin- 

 ous to be useful to an ordinary reader. 



Glasgow, October^ 1833. 



