ON DRAFT CATTLE. 2^5 



count of juft proportion, length will not be 

 forgot ; and that not only length, but a certain 

 degree of room and freedom of fhape is abfo- 

 lutelynecefTary to enable the horfe to make thofe 

 active fprings, which contribute more than mere 

 bulk, to the tranflation of a mafs of weight. 

 Your fhort-legged, cloddy horfes, as they are 

 flyled, are generally too (luggilh and flow, fub- 

 jecl to greafe, and thofe diforders arifing from 

 a thick and fizy blood; but fuch are far prefer- 

 able to the loofe, leggy and weak-loined ; the 

 worft poflible fhapes of draft-horfes. 



The breeds of cart-horfes, moft in fafriion 

 upon our ifland, at prefent, are the heavy 

 blacks of the midland counties, the Suffolk 

 punches, and thofe of Clydesdale in 

 North Britain. 



The firft are thofe capital fi zed, and high- 

 priced horfes, made ufe of by the Brewery and 

 diflillery in London, and by the farmers of 

 Berkfhire and Hampihire, and a few other parts, 

 where their teams form a confiderable article 

 of oflentation and parade. 



The Suffolk punches, which alfo extend 

 to Norfolk, are low horfes, rather coarfe- 

 headed, with indifferent ears, in general cheft* 

 nut (provincially forrel) fore-low, with deep 

 and large carcafes, and nimble walkers and 

 trotters. They have ever proved themfelves 

 the truefl: and befl drawers in the world, as 



u 4 well 



