ON THE HORSE IN GENERAL. 100, 



Ikewers. Their hunters the highefl leapers 



in the world, being trained to it from their 



being firft bitted. Prices confiderably under 



ours ; good coaching-like nags, and chapmens' 



Horfes, being fold at the repofitories for ten 



or twelve pounds each. They excel even the 



good people of England, in anticipating the 



ftrensrth f their Horfes, and wearing them out 



early ; and deem them aged at the fixth year. 



Their hay ill-made, fpoiled by Handing too 



long before the grafs is cut, and afterwards, 



bv not beincr flacked. It is carried loofe to 



market. General want of induftry among the 



Irifh, and the rage of fetting up for Jontlemcn, 



fo univerfal and contagious, that no fooner has 



a man acquired a few hundred pounds, by the 



exertion of em unfafhionable induftry, than he 



fcorns to turn his attention to any thing farther, 



than the readier! means of fpending it. Freight 



of Horfes to Park-gate, two guineas each." 



I intreat the good citizens of Ireland, to ex- 

 cufe my detailing the above unfavourable par- 

 ticulars, and to obferve, that I fpeak merely 

 from the report of another. If the piclure be 

 falfe or overcharged (which my partiality for 

 the gallant character of the Irifh makes me 

 anxioufly wifh) they will pafs it over with a 

 forbearing fmile ; if in any refpect true, their 

 ferious reflections upon it, will prove the firft 

 ftep towards amendment. 



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