40 BREEDING. 



gree of satisfaction ; I remained, however^ 

 without any thing perfectly conclusive till 

 the spring of the year 1780, when a grey 

 horsc called Jern/ Swea/c (that had proved a 

 tolerable runner, in the possession of Loro 

 Spencer Hamilton) coming into my 

 hands upon very easy terms just as his eyes 

 were failing, I covered a few marps grati$ 

 with him in the neighbourhood of Frimky 

 near Bagshof, which having made memo-? 

 randum of, with a design to purchase any of 

 the produce that appeared tolerably promis- 

 iijg, and making my excursion through the 

 dift^rent parishes to obtain from the parties 

 the necessary information, I found in the 

 fourth year many of the produce totally blind ^ 

 and the remainder nearly so without excep- 

 tion. 



Facts (it is universally admitted) are stub- 

 born things, and to the establishment of 

 this fact I have been anxiously labouring 

 a:i to the acquisition of individual emolu- 

 ment, though I have ever considered it a pro- 

 motion of general good, in which the com- 

 munity is so much interested, that it would 

 be an absolute want of philanthropy to con- 



