108 ON THE HORSE IN GENERAL. 



think their Horfes inadequate in drength, and 

 that the care beftowed upon them, and the 

 keep, are by no means fuflicient. But there 

 can. be no doubt, that the late great emigra- 

 tions from Yorkfliire, with fome of the heft 

 cattle, will alfo import into America, the juft 

 and generous dable-ceconomy of old Eng- 

 land. 



The few hacks and hunters of Ireland, 

 which have come under my obfervation, ap- 

 peared to me to vary no otherwife from Eng- 

 lifh-bred Horfes, than that they were fomewhat 

 more dim, and (harper built ; perhaps they 

 have naturally a little more fire. The follow- 

 ing account of the prefent ftate of Fquedrian 

 affairs in Ireland, I received in April 1706, 

 from a man who has had more than forty 

 years experience in Horfes ; and who had re- 

 turned the preceding week from Dublin, 

 where he had redded a confiderable time, as 

 an affiftant at one of the Horfe Repofitories. 

 " Thev have few or none of thofe large cart- 

 horfes fo common in this country ; thofe they 

 have, for the mod part, ill (haped, loofe, and 

 leggy. Their faddle-horfes naturally as good 

 as ours ; but, in general, poorly kept, worfe 

 groomed, and dill worfe (hod. In the latter 

 refpecl, they are thirty years behind us ; the 

 feet of their hacks, even in Dublin, being 

 torn to pieces by weight of iron, and nails like 



ikewers. 



