ON THE HORSE IN GENERAL. 93 



nuance, than the real Arabians ; and our cart- 

 horfes, together with a peculiar characleriitic 

 rotundity of form, have acquired more beauty 

 and greater activity, than the fpecies upon the 

 continent from which they have defcended. 

 The faddle-horfes of England are in requeft in 

 foreign countries, on account of their uniting 

 fuperior action, with ftrength, proportion, and 

 beauty. No people in the world have ever 

 been fo fond of fpeedy travelling as the Englifh ; 

 of courfe, the attention of breeders has been no 

 where elfe fo much directed to the attainment 

 of that particular fhape which is mod condu- 

 cive to action. The Spaniards of the old 

 fchool, who valued a Horfe in proportion to 

 his fufceptibility of the manoeuvres of the 

 riding-houfe, were accuflomed to ftyle thofe 

 which excelled in fuch exercifes, hazedores, or 

 doers. We of this country, emphatically dif- 

 tinguifh thofe Horfes by the appellation of 

 goers, which are particularly endowed with 

 our favourite qualification — fpeed. 



The original breed of Englifh Horfes has 

 been long fince entirely extinguifhed by that 

 general improvement which has pervaded 

 every quarter of the country 3 a curious obferv- 

 er may neverthelefs form a very good eftimate 

 of its figure and merits, by examining our 

 common road hacks, which (hew little or no 

 mixture of foreign blood, and the lower kind 



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