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

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

 disposition was gentle and compliant. It moved almost 

 with a wish, and never tired. I rode this little 

 creature for twenty-five years ; and twice in that time, I 

 rode a hundred and fifty miles at a stretch, without 

 stopping, except to bait, and that for not above an hour 

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

 ease and alacrity as it travelled at first. I could have 

 undertaken to have performed on this beast, when it 

 was in its prime, sixty miles a-day for a twelvemonth, 

 without any extraordinary exertion." 



Many of the galloways now in use, are brought 

 either from the New Forest, or Wales ; but they are 

 diminished in number, being scarcely sufficient to supply 

 even the neighbouring districts ; and they are far inferior 

 in form and value. The Welsh ponies are beautiful 

 little creatures ; they can live on any fare, and it is said 

 they cannot be tired out. On Dartmoor, there is a 

 very hardy and sure-footed race of ponies, well fitted 

 for the rough roads and dreary wilds of that mountainous 

 country. One of a smaller kind, the Exmoor ponies, 

 carried his owner, who rides fourteen stone, from Bristol 

 to South Molton, eighty-six miles, beating the coach 

 which goes the same road. The Shetland pony, an 



