CHAP. I.] PLATE DESCRIPTIVE OF TERMS. 543 



against imposition, and not " look at a horse" where 

 he has got to withstand two or* three masked ad- 

 visers— employed persons with the dress and address 

 of gentlemen, who assume to be purchasers. To be 

 sure, no one desirous of a nag would submit to the 

 imposition of a cart-horse instead ; but, next to this 

 kind of gross attempt, the thorough-paced dealers 

 practise deceit of every species, and throw obstacles 

 in the way of cool examination, especially when we 

 come to investigate the seat of any actual defect. 



General appearance : an idea of a good horse. — 

 And first, that we may make no blunders, and the 

 younger portion of readers be thinking of one part 

 of him, whilst we are talking of another, let the 

 annexed plate of " Terms commonly made use of 

 to denote the external parts of the horse," be kept 

 constantly in sight, so that there be no mistake of 

 that sort. 



Previous to stating our own old English notion, 

 it may not be useless to quote the instructions with 

 which the purchasers of cavalry for the French 

 military service travelled (as we believe) over that 

 country. Its coincidence with our own opinions 

 and practices is at least curious, though on such a 

 topic no Englishman whatever requires instructions 

 from a foreigner, if his own assertions are to be 

 taken for genuine. " The person sent to purchase 

 horses should not only keep in mind the colour, 

 height, and price of horses for which he is to treat, 

 but also the usual defects of the country, that he 

 may guard against them : these are, faulty eight, 



