The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.

The Marks of a good Horse.

THe Marks of Beauty and Goodness in a Horse are these; his Ears should be small, thin and sharp, carrying them well; or if they be long, but well set on, upright and moving, it is not amiss. His Face should be lean and bo∣ny, his Forehead swelling outwards, and the Feather of his Face set pretty high, that is, above his Eyes, or at the top of them; and if he is mark'd with white (provided it is not too much) upon his Face, or the ship of his Nose, so much the better. His Eyes should be round, black and shining, standing out from his Head: His Cheek∣bones or Chaps, should be lean and thin, with the space between them wide, and free from knots or kernels; and his Wind-pipe large. His Nostrils should be dry and wide, so that upon the least straining a fiery redness is seen in them. His Muzzle should be small, his Mouth deep, and his Lips should shut tite and well, the Upper being about an Inch longer than the Lower. The next thing to be observed is his Teeth, by which (now it falls in our way) I shall 〈◊〉〈◊〉 you direction to know a Horses Age.