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their regular rate of speed with this enormous load is seven 

 miles an hour, and this pace is maintained over rough and 

 hilly regions. On some routes the roads are lighter, when the 

 speed is increased to eight, nine, and sometimes to ten miles an 

 hour. 



6. Cleveland Bay. According to Mr. Youatt, the true Cleve- 

 land Bay is nearly extinct in Zrgland. They were formerly 

 employed as a heavy, slow coach-horse. Mr. Youatt says: 

 " The origin of the better kind of coach-horse is the Cleveland 

 Bay, confined principally to Yorkshire and Durham, with 

 perhaps Lincolnshire on one side and Northumberland on the 

 other, but difficult to meet with pure in either county. The 

 Cleveland mare is crossed by a three-fourths or through-bred 

 horse of sufficient substance and height, and the produce is the 

 coach-horse most in repute, with his arched crest and high 

 action. From the thorough-bred of sufficient height, but not of 

 so much substance, we obtain the four-in-hand and superior 

 curricle-horse. 



Cleveland Bays were imported into western New York a 

 few years since, where they have spread considerably. They 

 have often been exhibited at our State fairs. They are mon- 

 strously large, and for their size are symmetrical horses, and 

 possess very respectable action. Whether they would endure 

 on the road at any but a moderate pace, we are not informed, 

 and have some doubts. Whether they spring from the genu- 

 ine and unmixed Cleveland stock, now so scarce in England, 

 we have no means of knowing. The half-bloods, the produce 

 of a cross with our common mares, are liked by many of our 

 farmers. They are said to make strong, serviceable farm 

 beasts though rather prone to sullenness of temper.* 



7. The Conestoga Horse. This horse, which is found chiefly 

 in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States, is more remarkable 

 for endurance than symmetry. In height it sometimes reaches 

 seventeen hands ; the legs being long and the body light. 



* Randall. 



