286 ON DRAFT CATTLE. 



men, but merely as cautionary hints to fuch, on 

 both fides the queftion, as they may concern. 

 The truth is, the remedy for thefe grievances 

 can only be found in the exertions of travel- 

 lers, whofe duty to themfelves and the public, 

 is rigidly to infpect the conduct, of thofe with 

 whom they entruft their lives ; and to punifh, 

 with the full feverity of the law, all trefpaffes, 

 arifing from inebriety, wantonnefs, or neglect. 



No coach-mafter ought ever to be permitted 

 to drive a reftiff horfe ; and one who knows his 

 own intereft, never will purchafe one at any 

 price 5 for even when apparently broke, they 

 are always difhoneft drawers, and rob the other 

 horfes of their labour, and, befides, are never 

 fafe. A certain coach, lad year, was driven 

 with a wheel -horfe which was, at times, reftiff; 

 on going down a deep hill, this horfe thought 

 proper to lie down ; by which freak of his, the 

 coach was overthrown, one man had his back 

 broke, another was killed outright, and feveral 

 maimed in a miferable manner. 



It would be to little purpofe, to fay much 

 relative to the forts, or fhape.s of Horfes, def- 

 tined to this public fervice, fincc, generally 

 fpeaking, they are chofen, on the fcore of 

 cheapnefs, from the refufe of private {tables. 

 One remark will fuffice ; that action is of the 

 firfl confequence, as nothing can be more ob- 

 vious, than that a horfe muft be foon torn to 



pieces, 



