2 HORSE. Class I. 



variety, that no single country can boast of: 

 most other kingdoms produce only one kind, 

 while ours, by a judicious mixture of the several 

 species, by the happy difference of our soils, 

 and by our superior skill in management, may 

 triumph over the rest of Europe, in having 

 brought each quality of this noble animal to the 

 highest perfection. 

 Swiftness- In the annajs of Newmarket, may be found 

 instances of horses that have literally out-strip- 

 ped the wind, as the celebrated M. Conda- 

 mine has shewn in his remarks* on those of 

 Great Britain. Childers^ is an amazing in- 

 stance of rapidity, his speed having been more 

 than once exerted equal to 824- feet in a second, 

 or near a mile in a minute. The same horse 

 has also run the round course at Nexvmarkei 

 (which is about 400 yards less than 4 miles) in 

 six minutes and forty seconds ; in which case his 

 fleetness is to that of the swiftest Barb, as four 

 to three; the former, according to Doctor 

 Matys computation, covering at every bound 

 a space of ground equal in length to tvventy- 



* In his Tour to Itahj, 190. 



\ M. Condamine illustrates his remarks with the horse, 

 Starling; but the report of his speed being doubtful, we chuse 

 to instance the speed of Chllders, as indisputable and universally 

 known. 



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