USES TO WHICH [Chap. 



sip. We well know that v/e cannot drive a pair 

 of horses^ a great deal stouter horses than mine 

 were, twenty miles in two hours in a post chaise, 

 even if the road be as good and level as that in 

 Long Island ; and I never went without more or 

 less of a load. W'e know, that the boy must stop 

 to water twice in twenty miles, or at least once 5 

 and, indeed, he cannot take you the twenty miles 

 in less than three hours ; and that, even in tem- 

 perate weather, the horses will puff and blow 

 and totter and stumble and quiver in a manner 

 painful to behold. What, then, would such pair 

 of horses, and such post-chaise, do under a sun 

 of from eighty to a hundred degrees of heat ? 

 The corn is mild ; fuller of nutrition than ivheat 

 'itself, quantity for quantity ; it does not heat the 

 animal like rye, barley, or oats ; it does not fill 

 his body with bulk, and its mildness does not 

 tempt him to load it with water ; and, we all 

 know what this loading does in adding to the 

 labour or retarding the speed of the horse. It is, 

 however, to be observed here, as in the case of 

 poultry, and neat cattle and sheep, that none of 

 them, or scarcely any of them, take to eating the 

 corn heartily for a day or two. It is very hardy 

 and covered very closely by its skin, and there- 

 fore, does not attract the teeth by its odour, as 

 is the case with regard to grain. Poultry will 

 take it in their bills, and drop it again a little at 



