30 THE HORSE. 



Galloway were never brouglit into notice, until it was too late ; 

 the employment of it, while the race was in its best form, being 

 confined, for the most part, to the better class of farmers, small 

 rural proprietors and little country gentry, who were not, in the 

 last century, persons of extended views, or liberal education. 



I am disposed to dwell on this animal a little more fully 

 than I should otherwise do, not that it exists in these States, or 

 has ever — so far as we know or suspect — been imported to them ; 

 but because it is closely analogous to a kindred animal, of, 

 I believe, the same stock, participating in a high degree of the 

 same virtues, which has in the same manner become extinct, 

 to the deep regret of all true lovers of the horse. 



It must be remembered, that in Great Britain, in conse- 

 quence of the existence of this peculiar pure race of small-sized 

 animals, in the district of Galloway, whence they obtained their 

 name, all very small horses came to be called Galloways ; and 

 that in the North of England, pai-ticularly, the word Galloway 

 is now synonymous with pony, conveying no pretence that the 

 animal, so called, has any distinctive blood. I will here add 

 that the word pony, in England, is used to imply a horse under 

 thirteen hands in height, which is not subject to taxation — not, 

 as it is used in America, an animal of a short stocky formation, 

 such as, or even larger than, one which would, across the water, 

 be called a Cob. I well remember my surprise at being shown 

 a pair of clever, close-ribbed, round-barrelled horses, of full fifteen 

 hands, and perhaps something over, under the appellation of 

 ponies, on my first arrival here. I proceed, however, to Mr. 

 Youatt's description of the true Galloway, to Mdiich I shall ap- 

 pend a few observations of my own, on the original breed, its 

 failure, and the attempts which have been made to replace it. 



"The pure Galloway," says he, "was said to be nearl}- four- 

 teen hands high, and sometimes more, of a bright bay or brown, 

 with black legs, and small head and neck, and peculiarly deep 

 clean legs. Its qualities were speed, stoutness, and surefooted - 

 ness, over a very rugged and mountainous country. 



" Dr. Anderson thus describes the Galloway. ' There was 

 once a breed of small elegant horses in Scotland, similar to those 

 of Iceland and Sweden, which were known by the name of Gal- 

 loways the best of which sometimes reached the height of four 



