( '3* ) 



ed, as in that fort of foot the quick lies near, 

 and of courfe he muft be tender. Bar Ihoes 

 are proper for fuch feet. 



SECTION XXVI. 



Defcription of the Dray-Hotfe, and the Stage* 

 Waggon-Horfe to travel, 



D R AYS require the flowed movement ia 

 a horfe. The burthens are generally excef- 

 fively heavy ; in London ftreets particularly, 

 where no fwiftnefs, but great power is required 

 to move the immenfe weights drays are often 

 loaded with. Horfes for this purpofe, there- 

 fore, fhould be very broad-breafted, and thick 

 in the fhoulders, which fhould not lie back- 

 ward. Nor fhould the fore-hand be up as re- 

 commended in the road-horfe; for, by holding 

 up their heads, they would be choaked by the 

 collar, as they would, if fo formed, draw too 

 much by the throat, and their wind being thus 

 flopped, would be in danger of falling down. 

 The neck of a dray-horfe is not the better for 

 being long. If his head be fmall, he is likely 

 to be of better thrift ; but then on the other 

 hand, a fmall head is fometimes a fign of a 



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