text:  With these limited opportunities of observation his remarks on the mass of the people are necessarily confined in a great measure to their outdoor habits; in which nothing appears to have surprised him more than the small number of horsemen (as he considers) to be seen in the streets of London; "the generality of these too are extremely bad riders though this perhaps may be owing to the uncouth and awkward saddles they use:" a libel on our national character for horsemanship into which we must charitably hope that the Cockney cavaliers who crowd the Regent's Park on Sundays are responsible for having misled him