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than inflru61. When there exifts an union of 

 very high degrees of thefe feemingly oppofite 

 quahties, the pofleffor, whether horfe or man, is 

 truly a phenomenon. Thus it appears, that 

 hot, eager, and fpeedy horfes, are fitted for a 

 (hort race, and that fuch are ufually beaten by 

 horfes with lefs fpeed, but {looter, at the diftance 

 of four miles, or, as it is called, over the coun'e ; 

 unlefs the difference of fpeed be too confider- 

 able, which in the language of the turf, fpeak- 

 ingof the flout horfes, is fly led, " goin^ too 

 fail for them.'"' Baret, with the aiTiRance of 

 Euclid, has drav/n out an elaborate and curious 

 arithmetical fcheme, which proves, no doubt 

 veryclearlytothofe v/ho underftand it, (in which 

 number I do not profefs to be) that the (low 

 horfe, when he wins, is really the fpeediell; ; in 

 other words, his aggregate, or total fum of fpeed, 

 is the greateft. 



After all, what is the caufe or bafis of that 

 fuperior fpeed, endurance, and ftrength, which 

 diilinguifh the fouthern horfe ? Doubtlefs a pe~ 

 culiar innate quality of body which fome attri- 

 bute to the dry and elaflic air of thofe countries 

 where he is bred, but which appears not to me 

 altogether fatisfaftory. The game, or wild ani- 

 mals of northern climes, poffefs the peculiar 

 qualities of the race-horfe, which they lofe in a 

 few generations, on ' being domefticated ; their 

 bones becoming foft and fpongy, like thofe of 



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