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will, with extravagant keep, extraordinary- 

 care and attendance, and much good luck, 

 continue to labour eight or ten }tars •, and 

 may then generally be fold ior five Hiillings 

 a head. 



If we had no other fpecies of animals 

 adapted to the purpofe of draught in the 

 ifland, nor any one which could be natu- 

 ralized to the climate, cart-horfes would be 

 truly valuable ; they being much fuperior 

 to the breed of faddle-horfes for the purpofe 

 pf draught. 



But it appears to me evident, from theexr 

 perience I have had, and the obfcrvations I 

 have ma:de, that were only a fmall fliare of 

 the attention p-id to the bts-EEDing o£ 

 draught-oxen, which now is beflowed on the 

 breeding of cart-horfes ; animals equally 

 powerful ; more aftive •, lefs coilly ; Cv-^ually 

 adapted to the purpofes of husbandry, (if 

 harnefied with equal judgment) ; lefs ex pen- 

 five in keep and attendance; much more du- 

 rable ; and infinitely more valuable after 

 thev have finifhed their labours — mioht b'-' 

 produced *. 



* 1 do not mean to Iniiinate that any breed of oxcu 

 lyould be equnlly fit as borfcs for xhc road cnlj : I have 



had 



