SwiFTNESS. 
MH OCR AS EE: Crass I. 
of: moft other kingdoms produce only one kind, 
while ours, by a judicious mixture of the feveral 
fpecies, by the happy difference of our foils, and 
by our fuperior fkill in management, may triumph 
over the reft of Europe, in having brought each 
quality of this noble animal to the higheft perfec- - 
tion. ee 
In the annals of Newmarket, may be found in- 
ftances of horfes that have literally out-ftripped the 
wind, as the celebrated AZ Condamine has lately 
fhewn in his remarks* on thofe of Great Britain. 
Childers + 1s an amazing inftance of rapidity, his 
fpeed having been more than once exerted equal to 
822 feet in a fecond, or near a mile in a minute: 
The fame horfe has alfo run the round courfe at 
Newmarket, (which is about 400 yards lefs than 
4 miles) in fix minutes and forty feconds; in which 
cafe his fleetnefs is to that of the fwifteft Bard, as 
four to three; the former, according to Doétor 
Maty’s computation, covering at every bound a 
fpace of ground equal in length to twenty-three 
feet royal, the latter only that of eighteen feet 
and a half royal. 
Horfes of this kind, derive their origin from 
* In his tour to Italy, 1go. 
+ M. Condamine illuftrates his remarks with the horfe, 
Starling; but the report of his {peed being doubtful, we 
chufe to inftance the fpeed of Childers, as indifputable and 
univerfally known. 
Arabia; 
