BREEDING. 4^' 



ail furprifed, that in fuch a conftrained and 

 proftituted ftate of nature, fo few of her 

 attempts fhould be prodiKflive of fuceefs ? . . . 

 Here we might be readily induced to enter 

 another large field for fcientific difquintion ; 

 but as it would evidently extend not only be- 

 yond the prefent purpofe, but prove ** cavicr 

 to the 7miltitiide ^'\owx inferior clafs of readers- 

 might occafionally exclaim with Mukgo in' 

 ihe Padlock, '* What fignify me read^ if 

 me no underjland /*' 



Avoiding, therefore, the indifierence vci 

 general Ihewn to remote medical explanation, 

 and dull anatomical defcriptive, 1 come 

 direclly to a queilion founded in reafon, upon' 

 the merits of which the interefted part of 

 the world will be enabled to decide, at leait 

 fo far as correfponds with their own opinions 

 tipon the fubjed:. Can it be poffibly be- 

 lieved or expected (but by the moft illiterate,' 

 who, in facl:, poffe-fs the grofs comforts of life 

 only^ and never enjoy the fublime gratification- 

 of thinkings) that horfes thus eternally jaded 

 and haraffed, not only with the diurnal 

 routine of copulation, but the incefifant 

 fatigue of travelling perpetually, can be at all- 

 equal' 



