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" Certainly none in the World are better to Breed 

 on than our English, provided you Suit them to your 

 particular design ; if you would breed for the Manage 

 or Pads, let your Mares have fine Forehands with their 

 Heads well set on, but not too long Nechs : broad 

 Breasts, large and Sparkling Eyes, and great Bodies, 

 that their Foals may have room enough to lye : with 

 good Limbs and Feet: let them be of a gentle and 

 good disposition, and their motions naturally nimble 

 and Graceful. In a word, remember always that the 

 more good qualities your Mares have the better will 

 your Colts generally be." 



Fifty years later we have testimony to the 

 excellence of the horses which could be 

 hired from the Hackney man (or job master, 

 for the old term seems to have fallen into 

 disuse before this period) in the writings of 

 a Swiss gentleman, Mons. C. de Saussure, 

 who resided in England from 1725 to 1730. 

 Mons. de Saussure wrote an account of 

 his experiences, a translation of which was 

 published a few years ago. He was greatly 

 impressed with the good qualities of the 

 horses which were thus let out for hire. 



" They are excellent. When you travel on horse- 

 back in England it is always at a trot or a gallop and 

 Englishmen hardly know what it is to go at a foot's 

 pace. Naturally in this way you travel very rapidly. 

 Soon after my arrival in England, wishing to ride to 

 Guildford, which town is thirty miles distant from 

 London, I went to a horse-dealer and told him I 

 wanted to hire a horse for two days. This man told 

 me that if I had no business to keep me at Guildford 



