StATISTICAL SURVEY 



Dublin dealers, who attend the principal fairs : high- 

 priced horfes are feldom expofed at them for falej 

 from ten to twenty guineas the >ufual purchafe ; for 

 this latter fum a very excellent kind of horfe is often 

 obtained, fit either for road or draft. Every horfe in 

 reality, let his duration be what it will, ought to be a 

 good mover ; otherwife all his operations muft be at- 

 tended with difficulty. The colour moft frequently to 

 be met with is black, next to them bays, of which 

 there is a greater number than formerly. Little occurs 

 to me at prefent upon the fubject of breeding, except 

 to notice, that fome of the bell racers in Ireland of 

 their day have been bred in this county, and that many 

 are coming on likely to fupport their claim to excel- 

 lence. In whatfoever point racing may be viewed by 

 the fturdy moralift, the blood introduced in confe- 

 quence of this purfujt, and the knowledge attendant 

 on it, have certainly improved, in a great degree, the 

 powers of this noble animal, 



SECT. 3. Sheep, 







THE only native breed of fheep this county pro- 

 duces is confined to the mountains ; they are a fmall 

 and hardy race, moftly horned, but fome individuals 

 are without them. They are for the moft part bred 

 by the farmers, who live about the flcirts of the moun- 



