1 64 HORSES. 13. 



is the unfitnefs of high-bred hunters for 

 beafts of burden and draught. Not only 

 brood mares, but growing horfes, are ufed 

 in hufbandryi The operation of plowing 

 with two horfes requires flrength. Slender 

 horfes are unfit for it; but a three or four- 

 } r car old coach-horfe may be occafionally 

 ufed; and, in cafes of deformity or lamenefs, 

 may be continued as a farm-horfe. If to 

 this be added, the extravagant prices which 

 this deicription of coach-horfes have recent- 

 ly borney the Va.le farmers may be right in 

 propagating the breed *. 



Be this as it may, they are moft nfluredly 

 wrong, when they give encouragement to the 

 Fen Erced^ the " Hovvden mack" of BLACK 

 CART-HORSES, which I am forry to fee worm- 

 ing their way into the Vale. The breed of 

 grey rats, with which this Ifland has of late 

 years been over-run, are not a greater peft 

 in it than the breed of black fen horfes : at 

 kail while cattle remain fcarce, as they are at 

 prefent ; and while the fiefii of horfes re- 

 mains 



. * The WO-LV j and HOLDER NESS have been lostger 

 hi the practice of breeding- eoach-horfcs. 



