ADVERTISEMENT. IX 



India as many variations in figure, general form, 

 temper, &c. as in the different counties of England. 



" The original mare of India is very inferior in 

 shape, and generally a jade, with narrow chest, 

 drooping mean quarters, and if beyond fourteen 

 hands three inches, runs to leg ; even to this day, 

 after the importation of many English horses^ this 

 defect continues, and you never meet that great 

 length, with depth of brisket, which is so distin- 

 guishing a mark of the English horse, without the 

 fault of a long back. 



" In the stud of Haupper, the native breeders 

 select whichever stallion pleases their fancy ; for 

 judgment they have none : size is their best recom- 

 mendation. At the central stud, the stallions are 

 located within a space of fifty square miles, and are 

 more under the immediate control of the officers, 

 because the mares are the property of the govern- 

 ment; but even there the same fault exists, after 

 so many years of attention, and above fifteen hands 

 the breed is leggy. 



" The Tattoo, or pony of the country, is strong 

 but cross made; generally employed in carrying 

 burthens : those bred about Patna and in Bengal 

 have certainly a cross of the ' Duckney ' or of the 

 Arab, and are superior to those of our more northern 

 possessions. The real native horses of the Dooab 

 (between the Ganges and the Jumna) were for- 

 merly a weedy coarse breed, but for a century have 

 been undergoing improvement ; and within the last 

 twenty years it has been great ; for anteriorly the 



