ON PURCHASE AND SALE. I4I 



of dealers, where horfes are fold by private 

 contraft ; and in towns, repofitories, where 

 they are put up to fale by auftion. 



Previoufly to the war, EngUfli horfes of the 

 Ihewey kind, for the purpofcs of luxury, and 

 fome few for the breeding ftud, were in demand 

 throudioutthe continent; but the French were 

 our bell cuftomers. As a proof of the high 

 repute of Englifli nags, they were fent as far 

 as Vienna, notwithftanding the proximity of 

 that city to the famous breeding countries of 

 the Eaft. Both the late and prefent Emperor, 

 and the Archduke Charles, were confiderable 

 purchafers. The ex pence j6er horfe, from Lon- 

 don to Vienna, is about twenty-three pounds. 

 Before the war, the price of oats at the houfes 

 of entertainment in Belgium and Germany, 

 was generally about eight- pence j^^r peck, the 

 quaUty inferior to the Englifli ; the hay dearer 

 than with us, and far inferior. 



The principal breeding counties of England, 

 are Yorkfhire, Northumberland, and Durham, 

 for faddle and coach-horfes ; Lincolnfliire, and 

 the midland counties, Leicefterlhire, Noiting- 

 hamfliire, Northamptonfhire, Warwick Oiire, and 

 Staffordfliire, for cart-horfes ; and Suffolk, Nor- 

 folk, and the Ifle of Ely, for faddle and cart- 

 horfes. There are alfo many horfes of all 

 defcriptions bred in the other counties, parti- 

 cularly 



