t. NORFOLK. 4S 



myfclf feen a race of this kind : a following 

 team broke out, upon a common, and, un- 

 mindful of the ruts, hollow-ways, and rough- 

 neffes, contended for the lead ; while the lead- 

 ing team as eagerly ilrove to keep it ; both of 

 them going at as full a gallop as horfes in har- 

 nefs could go, for a confiderable diflance j the 

 drivers Handing upright in their refpedive wag- 

 gons. The clofe of the race was the mofl dan- 

 gerous part of it i for fo foon as the fore-horfe 

 of the team which broke out, found that he 

 had gained the lead, he rufhcd eagerly into 

 the road ; which in that place happening to 

 be hollow, it appeared to me miraculous that 

 no mifchlef was done. Savage, however, as 

 this cufcom may feem, the prefent fpirit of ac- 

 tivity may be in fome meafure indebted to it; 

 and whenever it is wholly laid afide, I hope it 

 vt'iilbe from motives of prudence, rather than 

 from a v/ant of fpirit and Inclination to con- 

 tinue it. 



The keep of horses in Norfolk, notwlth- 

 flanding the work they go through, is lefs ex- 

 penfive than that of other places, where large 

 unwieldy horfes feem to be kept for Hate, rather 

 than for labour. This, though prevalent iiv 

 many well- cultivated dillriifts, is an evident 



abfurdity^ 



