350 ROAD HORSES. 



of these derive so little support froih the 

 ocular inspection and personal care of their 

 riders or drivers, that if the secret interpo- 

 sition of Providence did not influence a greater 

 degree of assistance in their favour, tlian 

 those generally do, who should be their pro- 

 tectors, more poverty and bodily destruc* 

 tion mubt inevitably ensu^^- 



Rules for selecting horses in purchase are 

 so plainly inculcated in the early part of the 

 former volume, that they claim no part of 

 our present attention : management, with 

 such hints only as appertain to the tuition 

 of young and inexperienced travellers, will 

 form the sum total of arrangement under 

 this head. It would prove matter of asto- 

 nishment to those not intimately acquainted 

 with the general state, condition, and ac- 

 conmiodation of horses, what labour they 

 execute, the incredible difficulties they sur^ 

 mount, the incessant fatigue they patiently 

 endure, and the little they subsist on in the 

 hands of hundreds^ who feel no passion but 

 gain, no pride but insensibility. 



The hordes passing under the denomina^ 



