40 BREEDING. 



gree of fatisfadion ; I remained, however^ 

 without any thing perfedly conclufivc till 

 the fpring of the year 1780, when a grey 

 horfe called Jerry Sneak, (that had proved ^ 

 tolerable runner, in the poiTeffion of Lord 

 Spencer Hamilton) coming into my 

 hands upon very eafy terms juft as his eyes 

 w^ere failing, I covered a few mares gratis^ 

 with him in the neighbourhood of Frimley^ 

 near Bagshot, which having made memo- 

 randum of, with a defign to purchafe any of 

 the produce that appeared tolerably promif- 

 ing, and making my excuriion through the 

 different pariflies to obtain from the parties 

 the neceffary information, I found in the 

 fourth year many of the produce totally hUnd^ 

 and the remainder nearly fo v/ithout excep^ 

 tion. 



Fad:s (it is univerfally admitted) are ftub- 

 Dorn things, and to the eftablifliment of 

 this fati I have been anxioufly labouring 

 as to the acquifition of ir]dividual emolu- 

 ment, though I have ever confidered it a 

 promotion of general good, in which the com- 

 inunity is fo much interefted, that it v/ould 

 he an abfojute want of philanthropy to con- 

 ceal 



