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THE CONESTOGA HORSE. 



Cleveland Bay blood, with some cross of thorough blood, on* 

 at least, directly or indirectly, of the improved English dray- 

 horse, and not impossibly a chance admixture of the Suffolk. 



THE COIxTESTOGA HOHSB. 



In appearance this noble draught-horse approaches far more 

 nearly to the improved light-class London dray-horse, and has 

 little, if any, admixture of Cleveland Bay, and certainly none 



X CONESTOGA — THE GREAT PEXXSYLVAJTIA DRAUGHT-HORSE. 



of thorough blood. He is a teamster, and a teamster only ; 

 but a very noble, a very honest, and a moderately quick-work- 

 ing teamster. In size and power some of these great ani- 

 mals employed in draught upon the railroad track in Market 

 street, Philadelphia, are little, if at all, inferior to the dray- 

 horses of the best breweries and distilleries in London \ many 



