10/J. ON THE HORSE IN GENERAL. 



writers who appear to have copied from 

 them. 



Although there always have been, and I 

 fuppofe are at prefent, confiderable breeding 

 fluds in Germany, and in different parts of 

 Europe, it does not appear that any great 

 improvements have been effected ; on the 

 contrary, in fome European countries the 

 Horfes have degenerated, or they are eclipfed 

 by the fuperior fame of thofe of England. 

 A Treatife on the different ftuds of Europe, 

 was pubiifhed by M. Fluzard, in 1788: I 

 have not feen the book, but I mult own my 

 expectations from it are not very (anguine ; 

 all that I have read upon the fubjecl, either in 

 French, or from the Italian, being chiefly a 

 repetition of the exploded notions and practices 

 of former times, with fome few additional par- 

 ticulars, which, if new, are not a whit more to 

 the purpofe. 



Of the prefent (late of the courfers, war- 

 horfes, and coach-horfes of Naples, formerly 

 fo celebrated, I know nothing. 



The Germans and Swifs, are reprefented to 

 me as a heavy, mifhappen race, not remark- 

 ably well fitted for any purpofe. The Hun- 

 garians, and thofe bordering on the Eaftern 

 Countries, no doubt partake, in a degree, of 

 the fymmetry, fpeed,and goodnefs of the Horfes 



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