§6 on the horse in general. 



ments have been wonderfully great, chiefly 

 owing to the care of particular gentlemen 

 breeders, and to the more general diffufion of 

 racing blood, amongft our hunters, hacks, and 

 coach-horfes. We certainly travel the roads 

 now with as much expedition, as the nature of 

 the poor animals who draw and carry us, will 

 ever admit. What would Booth, the cele- 

 brated comedian fay, could he peep out of 

 his grave, and fee the rapid whirling of our 

 poftchaifes, and mail-coaches, who boafted 

 that he was accuftomed to whip from Windfor 

 to London in three hours, with a fet of horfes. 

 We have difcarded the old heavy, black, long- 

 tailed, and no-tailed coach-horfe, which ufed 

 to trudge on fo fleadily and painfully at the 

 rate of five miles per hour, all day long, and 

 replaced him with an elegant blood-like, full, 

 and well-proportioned Nag, equally adapted to 

 real fervice and parade. I am fpeaking chiefly 

 of our higheft form of coach-horfes, which I 

 conceive approach very near to the ftandard 

 of perfection, from the judicious ufe made of 

 the racing blood, by fome of our prefent 

 breeders. We have, neverthelefs, but too many 

 of the coach kind, with lcarce any other merit 

 than a fdken coat, and a (hew of blood; tall, 

 leggy, fplatter-footed, of infufhcient fubflance, 

 and little ufe. 



Our firft clafs of cart-horfes have, I appre- 

 hend, 



