breeding; 45 



all surprised, that in such a constrained and 

 prostituted state of nature, so few of her 

 attempts should be productive of success? — 

 Here we might be readily induced to enter 

 another large field for scientific disquisition ; 

 but as it would evidently extend not only 

 beyond the present purpose, but prove *' ca:- 

 viar to the ?7iultitude,*' our inferior class of lea- 

 ders might occasionally exclaim with Mungo 

 m the Padlock, *' What signify ?ne read^ if 

 me no understand P* 



Avoiding, therefore, the indifference in 

 general shown to remote medical explanation, 

 and dull anatomical descriptive, I come di- 

 rectly to a question founded in reason, upon 

 the merits of which the interested part of 

 the world will he enabled to decide, at least 

 so far as corresponds with their own opinions 

 upon the subject. Can it be possibly be- 

 lieved or expected (but by the most illite- 

 rate, who \\\ fact possess the «:ross comforts of 

 life 0/2 /j/, and never enjoy the sublime gratifi- 

 cation oithinkingj, that horses thus eternally 

 jaded and harassed, not only with the diurnal 

 routine of copulation, but the incessant fa- 

 tigue of travelling perpetually, can be at all 



