ai'e the nearest possible to the Eastern stock, are 

 those hnmediately produced from an Arabian or 

 Barbary stallion with an English mare, which has 

 been already crossed with a Barb or Arabian steed 

 in the first degree. 



THE HUNTER. 



The hunter should be well bred, and the more 

 allied to thorough-bred the better. The chief points 

 to be regarded in his make, are, that he should have 

 plenty of haunch ; be well ribbed, or tight and trim 

 built ; of a full chest, with good hams ; and a nose 

 that will go into a quart-pot. The hunter is the 

 field-marshal in the chase : he is one of the most 

 spirited and courageous of animals, and his sagacity 

 and judgment in leaping can scarcely be exceeded 

 by any animals endowed only with instinct. In com- 

 parison with the race horse, he is inferior in blood, 

 but superior in metal, and he may be taken alto- 

 gether as the paragon of animals. 



THE GALLOWAY. 



The Galloway is a stout compact horse, taking 

 its name from the district so called, in Scotland, to 

 the soil of which it may be said to be indigenous. 

 It is comparatively small in size, seldom exceeding 

 fourteen hands in heiglit, but for mountainous and 

 rugged districts is invaluable. The best properties 

 of the Galloway are supposed to be its inheritance 

 from the Spanish Jennets that escaped from the 

 wreck of the Armada, in the time of Queen Eliza- 

 beth. The Galloway is generally of a bay colour. 



Galloways are capable of performing prodigious 

 work. In 1754, a horse of this denomination, be- 

 longing to a Mr. Corker, went one hundred miles 

 a-day, over the Newmarket course, and without the 

 slightest distress. 



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