14 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



THE IMPROVED CART HORSE. 



IT will be gratifying to most of our readers to 

 know that the spirit of improvement has extended 

 itself greatly to this useful breed ; and to the ad- 

 vantages of strength and docility, has added those 

 of form, activity, and vigour. George, Baker, Esq. 

 of Elemore, in the county of Durham, has a re- 

 markably fine Horse of this kind, from which this 

 figure was drawn. 



Till of late years, Pack Horses w r ere employed, 

 in the northern counties of England, to carry the 

 different manufactures and articles of traffic from 

 one part of the kingdom to another; but the im- 

 proved state of our roads has caused that mode 

 of conveyance to be almost entirely laid aside. 

 In their journies over trackless moors, they strictly 

 adhered to the line of order and regularity custom 



