THE HORSE. LV 



nevertheless larger and superior to the 

 native breeds of Great Britain, and con- 

 sequently well adapted, through the me- 

 dium of judicious selection of parents, to 

 create a larger type of animal. 



The history of the past fails to 

 give information sufficiently distinct to 

 enable us to determine the exact type 

 the original British horse assumed ; but The original 



British horse. 



from the slight evidence which can be 

 brought to bear on the subject it would 

 appear that the native breed of Great 

 Britain found their representatives in 

 a race of small ponies, in many in- 

 stances not higher than twelve hands if 

 so much, as the horse-shoes founc[ m 

 Eoman and Saxon tumuli prove. 



In earl}' times, the Eomans, Danes, 

 Saxons, and Xorwes'ians, in makincr their 



