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some gross mistakes. Since he wrote, Dumas, Boussingault, 

 Liebig, Payen, Johnston, Playfair, Karkeek, Read, and others, 

 have thrown great Hght on this hidden science ; thus enabling 

 me to correct errors of considerable magnitude, and to add 

 some things to the Stable Economy, important to a judicious 

 and enlightened treatment of the horse. 



In editing this work I have suppressed few whole pages, 

 all of which were either quite erroneous in matters of fact, or 

 totally inapplicable to this country. About the same quantity 

 of matter suppressed has been added by me, which is enclosed 

 in brackets. The engravings of Mr. Gibbons' stables, and the 

 description of the same, are original with the American 

 edition. Altogether, I trust I have made the work more ac- 

 ceptable to my countrymen than it was originally ; and as a 

 second edition may be called for, I shall be quite obliged to 

 any one who will furnish me with any new information re- 

 garding the horse, or correct any error into which I may 



have inadvertently fallen. 



A. B. ALLEN. 



New York, January^ 1845. 



