50 TUIi UORSE. 



No persons familiar witli the streets of New York can fail to 

 have noticed the magnificent animals, for the most part dark 

 bays, with black legs, manes and tails, but a few browns, and 

 now and then, but rarely, a deep rich glossy chestnut, which 

 draw the heavy wagons of the express companies ; and I would 

 more especially designate those of Adams & Company. 



They are the very model of what draught-horses should be ; 

 combining immense power with great quickness, a very respect- 

 able turn of speed, fine show and good action. 



These animals have almost invariably lofty crests, thin 

 withers, and well set on heads ; and although they are em- 

 jDhatically draught-horses, they have none of that shagginess of 

 mane, tail and fetlocks, which indicates a descent from the 

 black horse of Lincolnshire, and none of that peculiar curliness 

 or waviness which marks the existence of Canadian or Norman 

 blood for many generations, and which is discoverable in the 

 manes and tails of very many of the horses, which claim to be 

 'piire Morgans. 



The peculiar characteristic, however, of these horses, is the 

 shortness of their backs, the roundness of their barrels, and the 

 closeness of their ribbing up. One would say that they are 

 ponies until he comes to stand beside them, when he is astonish- 

 ed to find that they are oftener over, than under, sixteen hands 

 in height. 



These horses are, nine out of ten, from Yermont, and not only 

 are they the finest animals in all the United States, in my opin- 

 ion, for the quick draught of heavy loads — for which opinion of 

 mine I have a reason to produce in justification — but the mares 

 of this stock are incomparably the likeliest, from which, by a 

 well chosen thoroughbred sire, to raise the most magnificent 

 carriage-horses in the world. 



In proof of what I assert, I will relate two circumstances 

 connected with this breed of horses, which have come under 

 my own immediate observation, and which cannot fail to have 

 weight with candid judges. 



During the Canadian rebellion of 1837, the English force 

 being largely augmented in the jDrovinccs, two cavalry regi- 

 ments, with a considerable park of artillery, were among the 

 number of the reinforcements. The cavalry consisted of the 



