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able of producing fine and noble horfcs, if feconded 

 by a judicious care, and other requifites, which its in- 

 habitants are very able to beftow. 



The horfes of the Ifle of Man are generally lefs than 

 thofe of England ; but as the land improves, fo do they j 

 and, of late, forae have been bred of no inconfiderable 

 fizc. This is the account given of them by Camden, as 

 they were at the time when he wrote. 



They have a particular dwarfifh breed in the moun- 

 tains, which are very hardy, whofe fmallnefs alone re- 

 commends them to the pleafure and ufe of chil- 

 dren. 



There were, feme years ago, a very particular breed 

 of tight, ftrong, and very little horfes, between Pen- 

 zance in Cornwall, and the Lizard Point, called Goon- 

 ellies, and fo denominated, from a large traft of land 

 where they were bred, known by the name of 

 Goonelly. 



In many parts of that extenfive continent of the 

 Weft-Indies, a variety of horfes are to be found both 

 in a tame and favage Hate. It is generally thought 

 that the horfe is not an indigenous animal of the 

 Weft-Indies, but was introduced by the Spaniards, 

 whofe horfes were the firft the natives had ever feen. 

 Some learned and curious perfons however have en- 

 tertained doubts concerning this opinion, and pro- 

 duced weighty and plaufible arguments to prove that 

 thefe creatures exifted in America before it was known 

 to the Europeans. — As a farther difcuftion would be 



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