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teen and a half hands. One of this description I possessed, it 

 having been bought for my use when I was a boy. In point of 

 elegance of shape, it was a perfect picture ; and in disposition 

 it was gentle and compliant. It moved almost to a wish, and 

 never tired. I rode this little creature for tweuty-five years, 

 and twice in that time I rode a hundred and fifty miles at a 

 stretch, without stopping, except to bait, and that not for above 

 an hour at a time. It came in at the last stage with as much 

 ease and alacrity as it travelled the lirst. I could have under- 

 taken to have performed on this beast, when it was in its prime, 

 sixty a miles a day for a twelvemonth running, without any 

 extraordinary exertion.' 



"A Galloway in point of size — whether of Scotch origin or 

 not we are uncertain — performed, about the year 1814, a greater 

 feat than Dr. Anderson's favorite. It started from London with 

 the Exeter mail, and notwithstanding the numerous changes of 

 horses, and the rapid driving of that vehicle, it arrived at Exe- 

 ter — one hundred and seventy-two miles, a quarter of an hour 

 before the mail. 



" In 1751, Mr. Corker's Galloway went one hundred miles 

 a day for three successive days, over the ISTewmarket Course, 

 and without the slightest distress. 



"A Galloway belonging to Mr. Sinclair, of Kirby Lons- 

 dale, performed, at Carlisle, the extraordinary /eat of a thousand 

 miles in a thousand hours. 



" Many of the Galloways now in use are procured either 

 from "Wales or the New Forest ; but they have materially dimin- 

 ished in number ; they are scarcely sufficient to supply even 

 the neigliboring districts, and they are still more materially de- 

 teriorated in form and value. Both the Welsh and Hampshire 

 Galloways and ponies claim, however, some noble blood." 



In my own youth, I recollect to have seen two Galloways 

 of the true Scottish blood, as distinct from those, of which I shall 

 presently speak, created by especial breeding, in the vain hope 

 of filling the vacancy. 



They were both, as nearly as possible, of the size indicated, 

 fourteen hands to fom-teen hands and a half in height ; but, un- 

 like what is stated above of their color, they were of a deep, 

 rich, glossy chestnut, almost copper-colored in the shadow, with 



