cumspect to correct him in time, he shall never bring him to any good : 

 for he will do nothing without stripes, which also being given out of 

 time, will make him so restife, that neither fair means nor foul means 

 will ever win him from that vice again! The pace of this Horse is a 

 good comelie trot." 



The same author describes the Szceaclati or Sueathland, by which I 

 suppose he means Swedish Horse, as one of middling size and strength, 

 and inferior quality. He says they are commonly pied, or pieballed, 

 and of two sundry colours, which colours are much affected by the 

 gentlemen of that country; and that many of them are wall-eyed, the 

 token of a shrewd and stubborn disposition. 



The Polish Horses are of middling size, without any other particular 

 character than that of strength and hardiness, common to the stock of 

 those northern regions. The Poles, in general, did not use to shoe their 

 Horses. There is a smaller variety of this breed in Lithuania, much 

 esteemed as amblers. 



In the Werders, or the low and marshy districts of Prussia, towards 

 the mouth of the Vistida, there was, a few years since, a coaching breed 

 of tall strong Horses, said to be good in nature, but of inferior form, and 

 with tender and bad feet, from the marshy soil probably, in which they 

 were bred. Both the Russian and Prussian cavalry used to be mounted 

 from thence, on the terms of eight to twelve pounds each, at fli-st hand ; 

 the King of Prussia, and many of the Nobility had studs in this coun- 

 try, near Tilsit, furnished with foreign stallions from Denmark, Spain, 

 Naples and Turkey, and some few from Arabia; the produce was said 

 to be more remarkable for elegance than strength or use. 



Germany, Holland and Flanders, continue to produce, as in ancient 

 times, the largest Horses in the world, those of the low and marshy 

 countries, in course, exceeding in bulk. Old Bhmdeville, before quoted, 

 has given a description of these, which will serve equally well for the 

 present day. He says, XheAlmaine, meaning the German, is commonly 

 a great Horse, not finely but very strongly made, and therefore. — 

 " More meet e for the shocke than to passe a carriere, because they be very 

 grosse and heauy;" and that their riders in managing them, always make 

 them turn with their hinder parts, like Jack-a-napes when he is made 



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