very wet all over, and some care taken that 

 every part of it may get a proper moisture, 

 that the rye flour may cling to it. If this 

 be done, the horse will not leave a single 

 inch of the straw ; and he will chew it 

 much ; for rye flour is of such a nature^ 

 that it will stick to the straw like glue. 

 This in many parts will be found very 

 valuable food. Horses for the waggon, and 

 plough, are said to feed upon it with more 

 avidity than upon any other kind of food, 

 and to work with more strength ; but it is 

 reckoned too fattening for a road or coach 

 horse. When the Americans feed their 

 horses with Indian corn, they allow it to be 

 best broken in small pieces, not ground 

 into flour. They mix almost all kinds of 

 corn food with chopped straw, and fre- 

 quently bran. These horses travel slow ; 

 but the real American horse travels quick. 

 It is not at all uncommon to see a waggon 

 with two or four horses pass the mail coach. 

 1 never was overturned in a coach but 

 once ; and it was by a waggoner with two 



