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and after each stoppage lie again drew off the chain of waggons with per- 

 fect ease. Mr. Banks, who had wagered on the power of the horse, then 

 desired that four other loaded waggons should be added to the cavalcade, 

 with which the same horse again started and with undiminished pace. 

 Still further to show the effect of the railway in facilitatino- motion he 

 directed the attending workmen, to the number of fifty, to mount on the 

 waggons, and the horse proceeded without the least distress ; and, in 

 t!-uth, there appeared to be scarcely any limitation to the power of his 

 draught. After the trial the waggons were taken to the weighino- machine, 

 and it appeared that the whole weight Avas as follows : — 



Twelve waggons first linked together . 

 Four ditto afterwards attached . 

 Supposed weight of fifty labourers 



HEAVY DRAUGHT HORSES. 



Tlie Cleveland horses have been known to carrij more than seven hun- 

 dred pounds sixty miles in twenty-four hours, and to perform this journey 

 four times in a week ; and mill-horses have carried nine hundred and ten 

 pounds two or three miles. 



THE SUFFOLK PUNCH. 



Horses for slower draught, and sometimes even for the carriao-e are 

 produced from the Suffolk Punch, so called on account of his round 

 punchy form. He is descended from the Norman stallion and the Suffolk 

 cart mare. The true Suffolk, like the Cleveland, ia now nearly extinct. It 

 stood from fifteen to sixteen hands high, of a sorrel colour ; was large 

 headed ; low shouldered, and thick on the withers ; deep and round 

 chested ; long backed ; high in the croup ; large and strono- in the 

 quarters ; full in the flanks ; round in the legs ; and short in the pasterns 



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