590 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



than formerly. But where the weight and resistance 

 to be overcome are great, weight and bulk in the ani- 

 mal used on the occasion are required ; and here a 

 heavy fore-hand, and one not too elevated, is favourable 

 to the exertion used. In cases where draught-horses 

 are employed in the transporting of heavy loads without 

 loss of time, as in coal- wagons, brewers' drays, &c. &c., 

 then height is very properly combined with great sub- 

 stance ; and the horses seen thus employed, particu- 

 larly in our coal- wagons, in the streets of London, are 

 splendid specimens of bulk and power. The traveller 

 through Normandy must have remarked them there 

 also equally fine. The general form of the cart-horse 

 should, therefore, present (but in dififerent proportions, 

 according to his uses) size and weight, with every 

 mark of power : his limbs should be rather short than 

 long ; his joints large and firm ; and the whole should 

 evidently be operated on by powerful masses of bone, 

 flesh, or muscular fibre : the simple fat of some of our 

 draught-horses adds little to their weight, and nothing 

 to their strength ; but the food which produces it robs 

 the poor of many a meal." 



