lo BREEDING, 



conflitute a medium exa^ly between hoth^ 

 when every judicious obierver will be ena- 

 bled to corroborate the opinion, that the 

 event frequently proves the error, and de- 

 monftrates a palpable degeneracy from even 

 the worjl of the two, 



Thefe are the kinds of connexion I have 

 before termed heterogeneous, upon experi- 

 mental convidtion, in fuch propagation; the 

 natural fluggiflinefs and inadivity of the old 

 Englidi draft horfe, whether it be in Jtre or 

 dam, generally predominates in the oft- 

 fpring, conftituting an objed: of difappoint- 

 ment where fo much improvement was ex- 

 peded by the crofs, I believe (without ad- 

 verting to niemory) that in a number of 

 years pafi:, I may boldly venture to affirm, I 

 could number at leail: twenty within the ex- 

 tenfive circle of my own acquaintance, who 

 full of expedation, and certain of fuccefs, 

 (in oppolition to every perfuafion) pofitively 

 believed they fliould produce ftrong ho- 

 ney hunters of figure, fafliion, fpeed, and 

 ftrength in this way, when Time, the ex- 

 pofitor of all doubts, has at length reduced 

 the conjundurc to a certainty ; and after wait- 



I ing' 



