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 horses, and a still greater variety in their motions; I some years since set about making a collection of such as were singular, and eccentric in their shapes and actions, and flatter myself no private museum can have boasted of a more admirable variety, than I have possessed. I mean some day or other to class them, and by so doing, think I shall be able to convince the Naturalists, that from their form and performances, many horses are allied to the cow, and some to the hog kind. In the mean time, I shall just mention to you a few varieties of this same animal, which I have had in my possession; and which may, perhaps, afford you an hour or two's amusement and reflection.

I luckily pick'd up a Daisy-cutter, by his throwing me down on the smoothest part of the grass, in Hyde Park. I had heard of this description of horse frequently, but could not believe the accounts of it, till I found it verified, by experiencing his accomplishments myself. It seems a problem difficult to solve, how a horse can put forward his fore legs, without