. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . THE OLD ENGLISH ROAD-HORSE Is a ftrong, vigorous, and a61:ive kind, capable of en-during great hardfliip ; its ftature rather low, feldom ex-ceeding fifteen hands; the body round and compadl, itslimbs ftrong, and its head thick. Although this breed has of late years been negleft-ed, and almoft totally fuperfeded by Horfes of anotherkind, more nearly related to the Race-Horfe, where thefafhion of figure feems to have been preferred to utility,we cannot help congratulating our aflbciated country-men* on their fpirited exertions t
. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . THE OLD ENGLISH ROAD-HORSE Is a ftrong, vigorous, and a61:ive kind, capable of en-during great hardfliip ; its ftature rather low, feldom ex-ceeding fifteen hands; the body round and compadl, itslimbs ftrong, and its head thick. Although this breed has of late years been negleft-ed, and almoft totally fuperfeded by Horfes of anotherkind, more nearly related to the Race-Horfe, where thefafhion of figure feems to have been preferred to utility,we cannot help congratulating our aflbciated country-men* on their fpirited exertions towards public improve-ment, in which nothing of excellency in the various kindsof domeftic animals is fuffered to efcape their vigilance,and this kind is again likely to be brought into mare of this breed, in the pofleflion of Arthur Mow-bray, Efq. of Sherburn, appears to us to poflefs all thevaluable properties attributed to the old Road-Horfe. * Agricultural Societie*. lO HISTORY OF THE BLACK HORSE. No other country has produced a breed of Horfes equalin fize and ftrength to the larger kind of our draughtHorfes. The cavalry of England formerly confifled ofthis clafs of Horfes •, but their inutility being experiencedin moft fituations, others of a lighter and more a£l:ive kindhave been generally fubftituted, except in a few fens of Lincolnfhire produce a larger breed than anyother part of the kingdom. In London, there have beeninilances where a fingle Horfe of that kind has drav/n,for a fmall fpace, the enormous weight of three tons, halfof which is known to be their ordinary draught. Confiderable improvements have of late years beenmade in this kind of Horfes, by Mr Bakewell of Difliley,and others *, who, by great ingenuity and attention, haveacquired fuch celebrity, that they frequently fell ftallionsof their refpeftive breeds for two hundred guineas *, or,what is a more general practice, let them to hire by the HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. i
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