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urge, " If I walk slowly in a hot day I can get on, but 

 if I was to walk four miles in the hour, I should 

 drop;" no doubt such might be the case, and, for the 

 reason I have stated, top speed always distresses, 

 and four miles an hour would be top speed to either. 

 But Westhall the pedestrian, who can walk consider- 

 ably over seven miles in an hour, would much rather 

 walk four miles in that time on a dusty road, and 

 under a hot sun, and get out of both quickly, than he 

 would be compelled to endure both for two hours in 

 performing such distance ; let me hope, therefore, that 

 what I have said may have some influence on some 

 persons, in inducing them to appropriate pace to cir- 

 cumstances, and the capabilities of the animal they 

 use, and not to their own ideas, wishes, or to what 

 they see other persons with other animals perform ; 

 for as regards pace, if we judge from analogy, we 

 must, to do so with propriety, make certain that men, 

 animals, and circumstances, are all analogous as to ca- 

 pability, otherwise no comparison can be justly made. 

 It now becomes my task to take up a most dis- 

 agreeable and repellent theme — to allude to acts and 



