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feverance in labour, having generally bad feet, and 

 feldora being well-fliaped and handfome. The Ruffians 

 and Pruffians buy large numbers of them for their ca- 

 valry, at the price of about eighty rixdollars each 

 horfe, which is about eleven pounds fterling. The 

 King of Pruffia has fome ftuds near T'ilfet, furnilhed 

 with foreign ftallions, valuable, and well chofen from 

 the beft breeds of Naples, Denmark, Spain, and Turkey. 

 Many of the FriiJJian noblemen have likewife ftuds upon 

 the fame plan as thofe eftablifhed by the King. The 

 breed are commonly graceful and well-moulded, but 

 are thought to fail in point of llrength, nor to have 

 that fire and fpirit which are fuch neceflary ingredients 

 in the compofition of a fine horfe. 



The horfes of Sweden, from the barrennefs, and ex- 

 treme coldnefs of the climate, are low, and fmall : 

 the Norway breed come under the fame defcription, and 

 are nervous, adlive, and hardy, 



Pontoppidan, in his natural hiftory of this country, 

 fays, that in the year 1302, a man, whofe name was 

 HuJeickfon, was the firft who gave his horfes oats in this 

 country ; whence he had the nick-name of Horfe-Corn. 



^od in Korvegia primus equos avena paverit. 



The horfes here are not fubjeft to fo many difeafes as 

 in mod other countries, and in particular the Staggers. 



It is not ufual to geld them, as in many other places, 

 for which reafon they are full of ftrength and fpirit, 

 and preferable to geldings. 



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