THE HOUSE. 45 



is of tolerable shape, strong, valiant, and 

 durable." 



The kind of horse alluded to was 

 evidently the production of cross breed- 

 ing and most likely descended on one 

 side from stock brought from Palestine 

 by the Crusaders. Our ancestors at Our ancestors 



kept no 



this period had never kept an ac- account of 



-•- •■- equine, 



count of how they bred their horses, ^'^^^^^^^^^^p-H 

 therefore it was impossible for them to 

 determine the exact relationship of in- 

 dividual specimens, or whence good 

 form and excellent quahties were de- 

 rived. 



It was durino^ the first Stuart's reio^n 

 that a " distinction was drawn between 

 race-horses and common stock by patrons 

 of the turf, who selected the most dis- 

 tinguished runners of both sexes, and 



