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willing animal, but is also a great nuisance while passing 

 through the streets of a town. 



The old Suffolk breed of horses brought very high prices, 

 but of late a larger breed has become more fashionable in 

 that country and neighbouring districts, which for largeness 

 and beauty certainly excel the old breed. They have been 

 produced from a cross with the Yorkshire half and three- 

 part bred horses of the coach kind, and are particularly 

 beautiful and lofty in the forehand. In the year 1813, at 

 a sale in Suffolk of the stock of a celebrated breeder, which 

 was, in consequence, numerously attended by persons of 

 rank and opulence, the horses brought considerable prices. 

 The following were a few of them : — A mare, with a foal at 

 her feet, £l24. 4s. ; a three-year-old filly, £85. Is. ; a 

 mare, which had lost the sight of one eye, but of a beautiful 

 form and powerful make, £98. 14s. The whole of his stud 

 consisted of fifty mares, geldings, and foals, and brought 

 the large sum of £2,263. 13s. 6d. 



SECTION II.— OF ASIATIC HORSES. 



THE ARABIAN. 



Arabia being sufficiently above the level of the sea, and 

 having a surface composed of sand, mixed with a portion of 

 vegetable mould, (a circumstance favourable to pasture- 

 ground,) and the plains of Persia, situated still higher above 

 the ocean, and consisting of a deposit of alluvial soil, 

 resting on granite, are naturally dry, and by means of their 

 heat attract moisture from the horse. On the other hand, 

 the aromatic vegetation, which is there strong and s-uccu- 

 lent, drives from him those humours, the exudation of 

 which is favoured by the imperceptible, but continual, per- 



