ON DRAFT CATTLE. 3O3 



London and Berkmire, will produce thirty of 

 their largeft and bed black horfes, they (hall be 

 met by the fame number from Suffolk and 

 Norfolk, under fixteen hands high, to draw in 

 any manner, either dead pulls, weight, or dif- 

 -tance, for athoufand. The gentlemen of Lon- 

 don would, doubtlefs, like to be let into a good 

 thing ; but in fuch a match, I conceive, they 

 would literally be " let in with a jog." 



There would certainly be a difficulty, or 

 rather an impofiibility, in obtaining, immedi- 

 ately, a fufficient number of horfes of the de- 

 scription which I have recommended, for the 

 ufe of the metropolis ; but were the gentlemen 

 in the brewery, and other confiderable proprie- 

 tors, to exprefs their inclinations to fuch a 

 change, Suffolk horfes would be bred in every 

 breeding county in England. 

 ■ It is urged, that the chief ufe of large horfes 

 in town, is, as fillers, to (land the making of 

 (lop-carts, and other very ponderous loads : 

 but I think a grofs and bulky, or a tall, leggy 

 horfe, can never be fo able to endure this, as a 

 fquare, mufcular, boney one of fifteen three or 

 fixteen hands high. Thofe over-grown cattle 

 are apt to be too much (haken by their own 

 weight. The practical arguments, however, of 

 MeifieursTrueman, Harford, and Co. of Lime- 

 houfe, are of more validity than a whole folio 

 of my theoretical ones. The drays of thofe 



gentlemen 



