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them to attempt it ; and ploughmen from thofe 

 countie - . introduced on purpofe, have foon de- 

 generated into the habit of the country, and 

 become unable to plow without afliftance. I 

 once attempted to bribe an old man of mine 

 (and he was one of tiie mod intelligent of his 

 clafs) by an increafe of wages : but all in vain ; 

 the man was incorruptible. The idea of 

 ploughing with lefs than three horfes, and in 

 particular, with reins, and without a companion, 

 was, to him, an abomination. I really believe 

 I mould have found it a much eaher talk, had 

 I thought fuch a thing worth while, to have 

 perfuaded the old man to change his religion. 



What I have farther to fay upon the ma- 

 nagement of cart horfes, will be found in a 

 fubfequent chapter. 



CHAP. VII. 



ON THE MANEGE. 



T CAN pretend to no other knowledge of 

 -*- managed Horfes, than that limited ipecies 

 which is derived from curfory reading, and oc- 

 cafional flight obfervation. This art may, I 

 think, be divided into the grand and petit ma- 

 nege ; the former, or management of the great 



horfe, 



