io BREEDING. 



ertions in drawing, or long and very fpccdy 

 joiirnies t; ken to promote abortion, and thofe 

 Without the leaft efFedl; to corrobate which, 

 the introduction of one only becomes at all 

 neceflary, as it is too well authenticated to 

 adm.t a doubt of its certainty. 



Some few years fince. Sulphur, a well- 

 known running horfe of the Duke of Cum- 

 berland's, having leaped the paddock pailing of 

 an imme lie height in Windfor Park, covered 

 a hunting mare of Mr. Jephs's (then refident 

 at Sandpit Gate) in the iight of many labour-^ 

 ers, who reported the occurrence. As hunt- 

 ing ibafon approached Ihe was perceptibly in 

 foal; this was what he by no means wifhed, 

 and was fo much hurt at the awkwardnefs 

 of the circumftance, that he continued to 

 hunt her inccffantly, covering the Jirongejt 

 (caps and taking the decpeft ground to obtain 

 abortion. 



The event, however, fufficiently proved the 

 folly (not to add cruelty or prefumption) of 

 oppofing nature in her niceft operations ; for 

 all the feverity fo inconfiderately put in prac- 

 tice, never in the leaft l;urt the marc, or de- 

 bilitated 



