2 HORSE. Class L 



of: moil: other kingdoms produce only one kind, 

 while ours, by a judicious mixture of the feverai 

 fpecies, by the happy difference of our foils, and 

 by our fuperior fkill in management, may triumph 

 over the reft of Europe^ in having brought each 

 quality of this noble animal to the highefl: perfec- 

 tion. 

 SwirxNEss. In the 2LnndXs oi New7narket^ may be found in- 

 ftances of horfes that have literally out-ftripped the 

 wind, as the celebrated M. Condamine has lately 

 fhewn in his remarks * on thofe of Greai Britain, 

 Childersf is an amazing inftance of rapidity, his 

 fpeed having been more than once exerted equal to 

 82^ feet in a fecond, or near a mile in a minute : 

 The fame horfe has alfo run the round courfe at 

 Newmarket, (which is about 400 yards lefs than 

 4 miles) in fix minutes and forty feconds ; in which 

 cafe his fleetnefs is to that of the fvi^ifteft Barl?, as 

 four to three; the former, according to Dodlor 

 Maty's computation, covering at every bound a 

 fpace of ground equal in length to twenty-three 

 feet royal, the latter only that of eighteen het 

 and a half royal. 



Horfes of this kind, derive their origin from 



* In his tour to Italy, 190. 



^ t M. Co7idamine illullrates his remarks with the horfe. 

 Starling ; but the report of his fpeed being doubtful, we 

 chufe to inllance the fpeed of ChiUers, as indifputable and 

 univerfally known, 



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