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Page 209. " Full of fpirit," &c.] The author of an 

 elegant work, lately publifhed, confirms this account. 

 The American horfes, which are increafed prodigi- 

 oufly, are fo far from degenerating from their Spaniih 

 ancellors, that they furpafs them even in merit j they 

 are fo fpirited and hardy, as to go fixty leagues with- 

 out Hopping, or taking food ; and will travel three days 

 fucceflively, without eating or quenching their thirft. 

 In fpite of this, they retain their vigour, and are adlive 

 and light beyond imagination. I have produced proofs, 

 fays the author, in my voyage to the Malouine IJJands, after 

 having been an ocular witnefs of all I relate. Diflerta- 

 tion fur L'Amerique, par Dom. Pernety, Berlin 1770. 



The following is the account to which the author 

 alludes. The horfes of Paraguay are famous and cele- 

 brated throughout the New World; they form a great 

 part of the wealth and fubflance of Morae-Video, being 

 indifcriminately in ufe with the White people, the Mu- 

 lattos, and the Negroes ; and their number at lead equals 

 that of the human fpecies. 



It is neverthelefs certain, that however valued they 

 be at Monte-Video, this place may properly be lliled an 

 Hell, or place of punifhment, to ihefe «dmired ani- 

 mals ; for the people frequently will work them for three " 

 days together, without giving them either food or 

 water, and treat them with as much cruelty as the 

 Arabs do their camels-. • 



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