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going fast down hill with four or five persons and a 

 cruelty -van ; but, in the first place, such men have no 

 business driving at all ; secondly, if people want to 

 travel by the dozen and luggage with one horse, they 

 deserve to get into danger ; most especially if they 

 condemn an unfortunate horse to be driven by a man 

 who knows nothing of what he is about. If they 

 wish to go the same pace with one horse that their 

 neighbours do with two, they must let it be done in 

 the most advantageous manner to the animal, or let 

 them travel en famiUe, and get over the ground like 

 Womb well's elephant, in a walk, with a jog trot by 

 way of a treat occasionally. If I had (which God 

 forbid!) the driving a whole family with one horse, 

 they should go fast enough on occasions, but it 

 should be when, I will answer for it, they would all 

 hold on by the sides of the vehicle. Let coaches 

 walk down hills, their horses would not walk long. 



Alluding to trotting down hills,, I have allowed 

 that with a driver who has no handa it is to a certain 

 degree dangerous ; but there is danger in most things, 

 and danger must be encountered in most of our pur- 

 suits, as it is said, "'tis dangerous to eat, to drink ;" 

 but going a fair pace down hill is not so dangerous, 

 where a coachman does it, as many people imagine. 

 If an accident does happen while doing so, the effects 

 may or may not prove more fatal than if it had 

 happened at a slower pace ; but of this I am quite 

 satisfied, that where one horse falls in going eight 

 miles an hour, half-a-dozen would do so at five. 

 When I use the term hill, of course I do not mean a 

 precipice. 



Although I once before made some observations 

 on that very clever invention, Mr. Tongue's drag, I 



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