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cufTion of the hard road, and that their finews 

 recover a flrain fooner than thofe of. other 

 hoifes. Perhaps they may endure their mifery 

 longer, but I think they become lame in the 

 legs and feet, fooner than horfes lefs delicately 

 bred. 



The prefent tafte of driving horfes of diffe- 

 rent colours, in light carriages, and where great 

 ftate is not required, is, in my opinion, altoge- 

 ther rational, and attended with obvious con- 

 venience. But this practice has helped to in- 

 troduce a laxity of equeflrian difcipline, alarm- 

 ing at firfi fight, and which has been really at- 

 tended with very ferious mifchiefs. Gentlemen 

 have been more adventurous than formerly, in 

 putting raw and unbroke horfes into harnefs, 

 and driving them immediately upon the public 

 roads, or in the ftreets of the metropolis. The 

 numerous accidents which have happened from 

 this incautious, and, I mud add, unjufl prac- 

 tice, within the laft two years, are almoft incre- 

 dible. I fay unjuft, becaufe however little ftore 

 a man may fet by his own neck, he can yet 

 have no fhadow of right to expofe that of an- 

 other to a wanton rifk, which he moit pro- 

 bably does, whenever his horfe breaks away 

 with him. It is not two months, fince a hunter, 

 apparently unbroke to harnels, ran away with 

 a chair, beat a poor man down, and broke both 

 his thighs. The dreadful accident, which hap- 

 pened 



