i5g WOUNDS. 



^For those doubtful compositions, whose 

 heads are as lio;ht as the heels of their horses, 

 and whose form, by the hurry of conception 

 and ambiguity of generation, are destitute of 

 the more noble parts necessary to the power 

 of reflecting!;, can form no idea of the strength 

 of the animal they bestride ; but each con- 

 cluding his steed a Pegasus, formed of ^ 

 Substantial material called labour everlasting, 

 and gifted with perpetual motion, they con- 

 tinue to ride or drive the oppressed object, 

 till nature being (after a thousand spirited 

 exertions) at length quite exhausted, can 

 move no farther. And I am convinced it 

 requires no imcommon share of penetration, at 

 least no magical assistance from Breslaw,- 

 or his cotemporaries, to discover so great a 

 palpability, as that all things certainly fall 

 when, being deprived of support, they can 

 stand no longer. From this trifling digres- 

 sion I infer (and enforce my opinion) that 

 more horses are thrown down and irreme- 

 diably injured by the carelefrsness and shame- 

 ful inattention of bad riders on bad roads, 

 and over rolling stones, or when they are 

 most cruelly exhausted with labour and fa- 

 tigue, than by any other means in the whole 

 list of accidents. 



