WE;ST DEVONSHIRE. us 



^I. It would be unfair, however, not to 

 obferve, that there are many farms in the 

 Diftria, on which the ufe of *' PACK 

 HORSES" ought never to be kid wholly 

 afide. Andi in many other Diftrid:s, the 

 fame mode of conveyance might be par- 

 tially adopted ; for the difpatch made, by 

 pack horfes^ properly ufed, is fach as no 

 one, who has not fecn it, would readily 

 apprehend*. Neverthelefs, the pradicej 

 compared v/ith that of wheel carriages, ia 

 iituations "which will admit of them, is 

 altogether ineligible ; and the prevalence 

 of it at prefent is a flroiig proof, of the 

 I 2 back- 



* In an inftance noticed, in which a ftout lad with 

 two pack horfes, and two men with three horles in a wag- 

 gon, were carrying faggots nearly the fame diilance (the 

 road of the one fomewhat fteep, ©f the other more level), 

 the comparative difpatch flood thus : Each pack horfe 

 carried nine faggots (twelve are a full feam), and made 

 eight journies a day; thiis transferring twelve dozen. 

 The waggon carried eight dozen at a load, and rriade fix 

 journies ; and confequently transferred juft f )ur times the 

 number. But if the grafs horfes and the boy are calcu- 

 lated at fixpence each, and the ftable horfes and the men, 

 at a Ihilling each, the difparity of expf^nce will not be 

 found very confiderabk. 



