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mains to be rejected as an article of human 

 food. 



Let the We-farmers continue to plow 

 with coach-horfes, and ufe oxen in carnage: 

 a breed of horfes better calculated for eating 

 than working, and whole main tendency is 

 to render their drivers as fluggifli as them- 

 felves, are ill-adapted to the prefent rents of 

 the Vale. Norfolk has already experienced 

 the evil confequences of encouraging that 

 breed ; and I hope this country will not fuf- 

 fer by the fame indifcretion, It is laughable 

 enough to fee a (lender half-bred mare, who. 

 perhaps, a few years ago, received the em- 

 braces of Jalap or his offspring, bending 

 under the weight of a cumbrous animal, 

 vvhofe very legs, in all their admired rongh- 

 ncis, are nearly equal in fizc to the body of 

 her former gallant. No wonder that mon- 

 flers, having not their likenefs in nature, 

 ihould be the produce of Inch unnatural 

 amours. 



IT. BREEDING HORSES. From what has been 



faid refpedting the fuperiority of Yorkshire 



Dories, it will, no doubt, be expected that 



M 3 great 



