63 tUE CANADIAN HORSE. 



road, are of considerably more bulk and bone than those of 

 New York, New Jersey, or the Western country. 



Of the Conestoga horse, although it has long been known 

 and distinguished by name as a separate family, nothing is 

 positively authenticated, from the fact that such pedigrees 

 have never been, in the least degree, attended to ; and, perhaps, 

 no less from the different language spoken by the German 

 farmers, among whom this stock seems first to have obtained, 

 and by whom principally it has been preserved. It would ap' 

 pear, however, most probable, taking into consideration the 

 thrifty character, and apparently ample means of the early 

 German settlers, their singular adherence to old customs and 

 conservatism of old-country ideas, that they brought with them 

 horses and cattle, such as Wouvermans, and Paul Potter painted ; 

 and introduced to the rich pastures of the Delaware and the 

 Schuylkill, the same type of animals which had become famous 

 in the similarly constituted lowlands of Flanders, Guelderland, 

 and the United Provinces. 



THE CANADIAN HORSE. 



The Canadian is generally low-sized, rarely exceeding fifteen 

 hands, and more often falling short of it. His characteristics 

 are a broad, open forehead ; ears somewhat wide apart, and not 

 unfrequently a basin face ; the latter, perhaps, a trace of the. 

 far remote Spanish blood, said to exist in his veins ; the origin 

 of the improved Norman or Percheron stock, being, it is usually 

 believed, a cross of the Spaniard, Barb by descent, with the 

 old Norman war-horse. 



His crest is lofty, and his demeanor proud and courageous. 

 His breast is full and broad ; his shoulder strong, though some- 



