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bulinefs, I cannot fee how fuperior activity, 

 and fuperior ability to carry weight, can pofli- 

 bly be lefs formidable, in any refpecl, than mere 

 bulk. But it may be fafely averred, that good 

 well-fhaped, half-bred horfes, would beat the 

 prefent race of heavy troop-horfes, at twenty 

 and five-and-twenty ftone, by miles in an hour. 

 They would alfo get through deep and diffi^ 

 cult countries with much more expedition and 

 eafe to themfelves, than heavy cart-bred cattle, 

 whofe own weight and laborious method of 

 progreffion, mull be impediments increafing in 

 proportion to the badnefs of the roads. It 

 would not be poffible, at prefent, I well know, 

 to find a fufficient number of that fpecies of 

 horfes to which I allude, for the public fervice ; 

 but the cafe may be altered hereafter, when 

 the heavy black locufls {hall have been fuper- 

 feded by a lighter, more aclive, and more ufe- 

 ful race. 



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