BREEDING. 31 



dition to the of rich, porcupine, and rhinoce- 

 ros, of fome eccentric colledLor of curiofities. 



Bracken has introduced a few judicioxis 

 remarks upon the fubjecl of breeding, but 

 in his nfual way fo perpetually interfperfed 

 with inapplicable ftories and ftrange con- 

 clufions, that you are dragged through forty 

 or fifty pages of extraneous and digreffivc 

 matter to be informed, that ** Spanking 

 Roger, belonging to the late Sir Edmund 

 Bacon, was a round barrelled horfe ;'* *' that 

 Mr. William Penry cured his ftammering 

 patients of that defed: in fpcech hy purging y'^ 

 that '' a mare belonging to Mr. T. Makin, 

 of Prefect, in Lancafliire, run with her fore 

 feet as wide as a barn door ^ yet fhe ran as 

 faft as moft of her fize, which was all owing 

 to bringing in her haunches quick, for 

 " they niu ft needs go ^ujben the devil drives -^^ 

 that " an old woman can cure a wound as 

 well as a furgeon ;** that '*phyficians may 

 from their ignorance, be coniidered a fet of 

 vile pick-pockets, almoft as numerous as the 

 catterpillars oj the law ;" that *' he who 

 fails with a had vjind had need underftand 

 tacking about ;'" with a great number of 

 curious remarks^ equally fublim.e, and as 



highly 



