HISTORY 



OF THE CONESTOGA HORSE. 



Of this noble draught-horse, I regret to say that there is 

 nothing more certainly on record, than there is in relation to 

 the Vermont horse. 



The above cut is the portrait of a fine brown Conestoga 

 horse, in the possession of Adams's Express Co. ; height, 16 

 hands and a half inch ; weight, 1440 lbs. 



In appearance, he approaches far more nearly to the im- 

 proved light class London dray-horse, and has, in so far as I can 

 judge, little, if any, admixture of Cleveland Bay, and, most 

 emphatically, none of thorough blood. 



He is a teamster, and a teamster only ; but a very noble, a 

 very honest, and a moderately quick-working teamster. In 

 size and power, I have seen some of these great horses, employed 



