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Other purposes; but an ox does very well to draw 

 a cart to Kensington, or to go any short dis- 

 tance, and, if not very frequently, over the pave- 

 ment as far as Hyde Park Corner, or even far- 

 ther. About farms, however, there are, thank 

 God, no pavements yet"; and, therefore, it does ap- 

 pear to me to be the strangest thing in the world, 

 that the use of oxen is not preferred to that of 

 horses. The reason is, I believe, that farmers 

 generally think that horses do more work than 

 oxen ; and another reason certainly is, that they 

 will bear hurrying and whipping along, which 

 oxen will not. An additional reason is, that horses 

 can be sent with a load upon any hard roads, 

 and that, generally speaking, oxen cannot ; but, 

 I want to know what great distances a farmer 

 can want to send his team to. To market is the 

 utmost. The market is not, on an average, ten 

 miles distant from the farm ; and that distance 

 is not necessary to be gone over a great many 

 times in the year, except the farm be very large, 

 and then there must be several teams of oxen, 

 amongst which this road work would of course 

 be divided. In these objections, I therefore see 

 nothing of any weight; and there remains only 

 to speak of the breaking~in. In the first place, 

 oxen are certainly more troublesome than cart 

 horses to break into their work; but, with an in- 

 flexible resolution on the part of the master to 



