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for one or two miles, they were tried together; 

 and Archer proved to have the greateft fpeed, 

 even for the fhorteft diflance. I afterwards 

 myfelf faw the black horfe timed with the {top- 

 watch, two miles, the lafl of which he perform- 

 ed considerably under three minutes. With 

 refpecl: to the other, the rapidity of his burft, 

 in the courfe of a mile's trotting (which I have 

 witneffed) was truly aftonifhing; and I cannot 

 conceive the rate of it could be below twenty- 

 five miles per hour. It has been faid of late, 

 that an old gelding, the property, I believe, 

 of one Cartwright, which cut in the fpeed, was 

 as faff as Archer, which I know from trials to 

 be groundlefs, and that the old horfe had 

 not fpeed enough to trot along fide Archer a 

 fingle inftant. This noble animal was. ibt- 

 tifhly and cruelly murdered, about ten years 

 ago, by being trotted over the road in a hard 

 froft. He performed fixteen miles, in fifty- 

 four minutes and a half, carrying about eleven 

 flone. The exceflive making which he fuffer- 

 ed from the hardncfs of the road, brought a 

 fever and inflammation upon his feet, which, 

 with the aid of fuppreffed perfpiration, and 

 improper treatment, foon killed him. 



As Archer was the fpeedieit, the well-known 

 brown mare, which died the property of Bifhop, 

 proved herfelf the ftouteft,that is to fay, the moll. 

 Jailing trotter in the world. This mare was 



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