The Travellers Oracle Or Maxims for Locomotion Containing Precepts for Prom
The Travellers Oracle Or Maxims for Locomotion Containing Precepts for Prom
William Kitchiner
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Continually, however, in our sight, this " Chef d'CEuvre" is not only disregarded, but neglected. English Horses, are equally remarkable for their Strength and for their Speed. " Each seeming want compensated of course, Here with degrees of Swiftness, there of Force. " Pack Horses in Yorkshire carry, not un- usually, loads of 420 Pounds. A London Dray Horse has been known to move, on a plane surface for a short space, the weight of Three Tons, and to draw half that weight a considerable distanc...e. On the Turnpike road, one Ton per horse is the Weight usually allowed for a Journey. The famous Childers moved 82 \ Feet in one second of time, which is nearly at the rate of a Mile in a Minute ; for he ran round a course at Newmarket (little less than four miles) in six ON HORSES. 221 minutes and forty seconds ; a degree of Velo- city, which no horse has been known to exceed. Another account avers that he ran over an- other course at Newmarket (which is 380 yards more than Four English Miles) in 7| Minutes.
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