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 CHAP. IV. 



ON THE HACKNEY AND HUNTER. 



' SHALL begin with generals, proceeding to 

 A particulars, as they prefent themfelves to 

 my recollection ; but rather fludying compre- 

 henfion and ufe, than the graces of method and 

 arrangement. 



Time, which is continually changing all 

 things, has, in courfe, induced various altera- 

 tions in the nomenclature of the ftable. Horfes, 

 for the different purpofes of the faddle, were in 

 former days, termed nags, amblers, pacers, 



STIRRERS, TROTTING-HORSES, HOBBIES, 



great-horses, or horfes for the buff-sad- 

 dle (for war) hunting-horses, coursers, 

 race-horses. 



The appellatives, whether fynonymous or 

 diftinctive, in prefent equeftrian ufe among us, 

 are road-horses, riding-horses, saddle- 

 horses, nags, chapmens horses, hacks, 

 hackneys, ladies horses, or pads, hun- 

 ters, running-horses, racers, race- 

 horses, gallopers, managed-horses, 

 chargers, troop-horses, post-hacks, or 



POST-HORSES, TROTTERS, CANTERING HACKS, 



or canterers, horfes which carry double, 

 galloways, and PONIES. 



Chapmens Horfes, or common road-hacks, 

 are of the flrong and ferviceable kind, having 



little 



