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and consistency in the management of draft 

 horses^ w1k>, beyond every possibility of con-^ 

 tradiction, not only earn their living more 

 laboriously, bat contribute more to the 

 opulence and support of the natives tliaii 

 any other breed of horses in the kins?;dom* 

 When I advert to tlie management of draft 

 horses, I wish not to be understood the 

 pampered carriage-horses of the great, sup- 

 ported in the style of hunters, for tiie va- 

 rious purposes of public parade and personal 

 ostentation ; but that infinity of useful ani- 

 mals universally employed in agriculture^ 

 road waggons, the barge and coal trade, as 

 w^ell as many other purposes equally labo*^ 

 rious and equally advantageous to commerce 

 and the community* These horses have un- 

 doubtedly the greatest portion of labour^ 

 and most probably the least of care and at- 

 tention ; from the extensive concerns of the 

 proprietors, they are more generally intrust- 

 ed to the very indifferent management of ser* 

 vants; to whose accounts may be justly 

 placed a majority of those defects or misfor* 

 tunes that so fiequently occur fi om blovrs, 

 bruises, and a long train of probable indis-* 

 cretions. From such a variety of careless- 



