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hend, been bred up to too large a fize; active, 

 mufcular ftrength, has been improvidently 

 facrificed to the momentum of mere bulk and 

 weight. We befides, fee every day, many of 

 thefe much too high upon the leg; a fault 

 pretty general among all defcriptions of Englifh 

 cart-horfes. I do not fay that is abfolutely 

 neceffary, but I conceive it poffible, that in 

 fome countries, our breed of cart-horfes might 

 be farther amended by a frelh recourfe to Bel- 

 gium, the parent country. The beft Flanders 

 cattle, which I have feen, are deeper-bodied, 

 with fhorter, flatter, and more clean and finewy 

 legs, than our own of the fame kind. 



It may be very fafely pronounced, that we 

 have had more good Horfes, of every defcrip- 

 tion, in the country, within the laft ten years, 

 than in any preceding time; but the number 

 of fuch, bears not as yet, any fair proportion 

 with that of an inferior fort. We are con- 

 flantly hearing thofe, who are the bell judges 

 of Horfes, complaining of the great number 

 they are under the neceflity of looking over, 

 before they can find one for the faddle, of any 

 confiderable degree of excellence, in any point 

 of view. Our national propenfity to fad rid- 

 ing, no doubt, enhances the difficulty; but 

 there are certainly too many of our faddle- 

 horfes, miferably ill-fhaped and weak, or over- 

 laden with fubftance ill-placed: in fhort, calcu- 



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