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heavy, ilrong ground, fuch as requires 

 four horfes, and admits only of a flow 

 motion, oxen will there have the advan- 

 tage ; and be in the proportion of twelve 

 oxen only to eight horfes. In the former 

 cafe, the oxen would be double in num- 

 ber, in the latter, they are only as three 

 to two. 



When this diflindion is clearly made> 

 each animal will be found to have his 

 excellence -, and every intelligent occu* 

 pier of land will know which to prefer. 

 The horfe is fo delightful, fo fpirited* . 

 and pleafant a fervant, that one would 

 wiih to make choice of him upon every 

 occafion ^ but when interefl: is thrown 

 into the oppofite fcale, the ox will often 

 deferve the preference. For the great 

 expence of fupporting the horfe, his na- 

 tural decreafe in value, and pronenefs to 

 accident, by which that value is totally 



loft, 



