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well as the hardieft, and mofl ufeful cart and 

 plough-horfes. Their nimblenefs, it (liould 

 feem, is owing to their length and moderate 

 fize; and their immenfe powers in lifting 

 weight, to the fame caufe, combined with the 

 low pofition of the fhoulder, which occafions 

 the weight to be act.ed upon, in a jufl and hori- 

 zontal direction. Their luperiority over all 

 other horfes, at drawing dead pulls, is no 

 doubt, in fome meafure, owing to early train- 

 ing, as in no country is fo much pride taken, 

 in teaching horfes to draw; and it is well 

 known, that a team of Suffolk horfes, the fig- 

 nal being given, will all down upon their 

 knees, and leave nothing behind them, that 

 is within the power of flefh and blood to draw 

 away. As to draft- cattle, in my opinion, 

 nothing need be done, but give thofe of Suffolk 

 a fine head and ear, and flat legs; and we are 

 then at the top of it. 



But there is another breed of Horfes, in 

 Suffolk and Norfolk (how they came there, is 

 fomewhat difficult to afcertain) well fitted both 

 for the faddle and draft. I have feen a cart- 

 horfe of this defcription, which, bating a little 

 coarfenefs of the head, was perhaps as fit to 

 get hacks and hunters, from proper mares, as 

 the belt bred horfe alive. I have alfo heard 

 of a Norfolk Farmer, who about forty years 

 ago, had a peculiar fort, which he ftyled 



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