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hunters or hacks, enjoying the advantage of 

 regular food, drcjjing, air, and exercifc, will 

 conftitute all the apology I think it necefTary 

 to introduce, for any degree of freedom I may- 

 be inchned to offer, in drawing a comparifon 

 very little obfervable by metropolitan 

 HEROES ON HORSEBACK, but univcrfally 

 i:nown to the difcriminating eye of every 

 ^Experienced fpartlm-^n in the kingdom. 



Such inferiority arifcs from an accumula- 

 tion of caufes, very little ccnfidered or in- 

 quired into by the owners, or riders, who 

 philofophically define and experimentally dcr 

 monftrate, the liorfe to be an animal of ge- 

 neral utility, and appropriate him to all their 

 different purpofes accordingly ; with as little 

 attention to his colGur, perfcdions, or defeBs^ 

 as a tradefman at Mancheiler, who having 

 fome few years fince occafion to attend the 

 alTizes at Lancafter, hired a grey gelding iox 

 the purpofe, but unluckily returned with a 

 hay mare, and obfhinatcly perfifted (in oppo- 

 iition \.o every witnefs and expoftulation) that 

 he had brought back the very horfe and 

 equipments with which he had flarted, in 

 obedience to the legal injunftion he had re- 

 ceived. 



