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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 found in 

 Eoman and Saxon tumuli prove. 



In early times, the Romans, Danes, 

 Saxons, and Norwegians, in making their 



