ON DRAFT CATTLE. 2£3 



within, but they fhould be enjoined always fo 

 to do, it being a great help to the faddle 

 horfe. 



I have made thefe few obfervations, in the 

 behalf of miferable and neglected objects, by 

 way of flimulating and directing the attention 

 of thofe, who aie more verfant in the fubject.. 



Cart-horses are well known to be of 

 the largefl and coarfeft defcription ; their 

 Belgic origin has been already noted. As it 

 is the general opinion, that the faddle-horfe 

 ought to be (harp and frigate-built, fo they 

 hold that the cart-horfe (hould be round, and 

 (to borrow a lift from my beloved Smollett) 

 as bluff in the bows, as a Dutch fly-boat. 

 Rotundity, or the form of carrying their fub- 

 ftance in a horizontal pofition, feems to be the 

 grand characleriftic of Englifh draft- horfes. 

 They fay, this make of the (houlder, is the bell; 

 adapted to drawing along, or moving weights; 

 farther, that it is not fo liable to chafe with the 

 collar, as the flat and deep form. Both 

 Bracken and Ofmer, feem difpofed, in part, to 

 controvert thefe pofitions, probably from their 

 prejudice in favour of bred cattle. That large 

 bred horfes would draw there is no doubt;' 

 and it is true, that the fuperior flrength and 

 elafticity of their tendons would enable them 

 to make great exertions ; but the article of 

 grofs weight has a conhderable degree of con- 



u 3 fequence 



