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drawn two-and-one ; namely, one horfe in 

 the fhafts ; the other two in a pair before it : 

 the whole being guided by leathern reins, 

 and driven with a long-thonged whip, in 

 the coach manner. 



This practice has probably arifen from the 

 circumftance of coals and lime being fetched 

 into Cleveland from diftant parts of the coun- 

 ty of Durham. The latter, which has long 

 been the fheet-anchor of the Cleveland far- 

 mers, is drawn, into the interior parts of the 

 Diftrid:, more than thirty miles ; the teams 

 going and returning without a reft, except- 

 ing tranfient baits upon the road. 



The rule, when going empty, is to trot 

 two miles and feed one ; the driver riding in 

 the carriage the two miles, and walking 

 by the fide of his horfes the one ; baiting 

 them with hay, out of his hand, as they go 

 along the road. When loaded, he keeps 

 feeding whenever he finds the horfes will 

 eat a mouthful of hay. Corn is alfo carried 

 in thefe journies, and given in bags hung up- 

 on the horfes* heads ; in the manner in which 

 hackney coach-horfes are fed upon the ftands 



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