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their form, length, and in the best of them, symmetry : but there is in 

 them generally a coolness, sedateness, and want of grace, which indi- 

 cates their greater aptitude to solid use, than to parade and shew. A 

 mixture of all nations, like their masters, they seem to have caught the 

 same spirit and manner, as it were from the soil, or from that mixture. 

 Many of them, however, are models of beauty and delicacy. The 

 breed of ponies and forresters has long been on the decrease, although 

 many are still bred in Wales, and the western parts of England. I 

 know nothing peculiar in the Scots Horses, nor that horse-breeding 

 is much pursued in that country. There is a small breed, I under- 

 stand, upon the Isle of Man. Ireland has bred some good racers ; 

 and the generality of Irish Horses are, it appears, warmer-tempered 

 than our own ; and to use the expression, sharper and more frigate- 

 built. 



So long ago as the time in which Mr. Cambridge wrote his account 

 of the War in India, good Persian Horses often fetched the price of one 

 thousand guineas each; the native Indian, although at that time selling 

 fi-om fifty to one hundred pounds a head, being of little worth. Such 

 were doubtless very sufficient motives for the establishment of those 

 considerable breeding studs, which our India Company possess in 

 Bengal. From those studs, I understand, they mount a considerable 

 part of their cavalry. They have had also for some time past, a stud 

 in England, near Rumford, Essex, where they breed stallions for the 

 supply of their studs in India. Such of them as 1 have seen, destined 

 for that purpose, were shewy, three-part bred]Horses. 



United America has a breed descended from our own. In the time 

 of the war, some British officers, my old friends, who served there, 

 reported the American Horses to me, as generally a light kind of cat- 

 hammed half-breds, deficient in size and substance. The draught 

 cattle mean. The Americans have since been in the habit of importing 

 some of our best racing stallions ; and probably, from their commenced 

 intercourse Avith the Barbary States, have obtained also some breeding- 

 stock from that country. We have accounts of horse-races at Wash- 

 ington, and other places in America, but none, at least none have 

 reached me, of the merits of their race-horses. Kentucky, and some 



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