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fame quantity of work as the heavy horfes, in 

 lefs time, but would not be fo liable to beat and 

 founder their feet ; would laft longer, and con- 

 fume \ek. Is a proof of this demanded ? Let 

 the enquirer fatisfy himfelf of the labour per- 

 formed by the Suffolk and Norfolk cart-horfes, 

 which he may very eafily do. Let him turn to 

 Mr. Culley's account of the Cleveland Bays. 

 Let him look into the Annals of Agriculture, 

 where he will find, among many other obferva- 

 tions highly deferving his attention, the account 

 of Mr. Collett's five horfes, which draw thirty 

 facks of barley, over the fandy road from Wal- 

 ton to Ipfwich ; and Mr. Conflable's cart, of 

 Eaft Berghott, which, with only one horfe, car- 

 ries ten facks of flour, twenty (tone feven 

 pounds each fack, five or fix miles, over a road 

 where are no turnpikes. But there are many 

 proprietors in town, of the fame opinion with 

 myfelf, on this head; and one gentleman in 

 particular, of the highefl refpeclability in the 

 diftillery, told a friend of mine, that, his own 

 horfes being all engaged, on a certain occafion, 

 he was under the neceflity of employing the 

 light team of a farmer, which, to his fur- 

 prize then, went through the day's labour with 

 more eafe and difpatch, than was ufual with his 

 own. I fliall conclude my argument, a I' An- 

 glaife, that is, by propofing a wager. It has 

 been hinted to me, that if the gentlemen of 



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