106 ON THE HORSE IN GENERAL. 



well fitted for the troop. They travelled,' it 

 feems, fometimes on their marches, feventy and 

 eighty miles per day. 



The countries upon the Baltic produce 

 active, hardy, clean-limbed faddle Horfes, 

 perhaps an original race, without any mix- 

 ture of Afiatic blood. Such as I have feen 

 from Norway, were dun-coloured, fmall, but 

 thick-fet, and very well fhaped. I have known 

 good flock raifed from Norway mares, and 

 our bred Horfes. I have heard of capital 

 trotters, and of good fize, in Sweden and 

 Ruffia. 



In the vafl plains of South America, where 

 European induflry and tyranny have not yet 

 penetrated, it is well known there are numer- 

 ous herds of wild Horfes, in the original flate 

 of nature. Thefe have increafed to their pre- 

 fent numbers, from a few put on more by 

 the Spaniards, more than two centuries ago. 

 Although the produce of Spanifh flock, for- 

 merly held in fuch high eflimation, they are 

 reprefented by thofe who have feen them of 

 late years, as fmall, thick-headed, and ill— 

 fhaped. I have my doubts of the exiflence of 

 wild Horfes, in any other part of the world. 



Our brethren of the United States of North 

 America, well aware of the confequence of 

 this excellent animal to the interefts, and the 

 comforts of human fociety, have been, for a 



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