characteristics of the modern Shire horse. 

 Thus we have pictorial evidence to confirm 

 the written testimony of JuHus Ceesar, that 

 twenty centuries ago there existed In Britain 

 a breed of horses having cardinal points in 

 common with those massive animals seen 

 to-day, known as Shires, Clydesdales and 

 Suffolks, and held in the highest esteem. 



Parenthetically, it is worth noticing that 

 while a large proportion of the few coins 

 known to be British bear the effigy of a 

 horse, not one of the Roman coins figured 

 in Camden's Britannia bear such a device ; 

 nor do the coins of Saxon origin. To a 

 horse-loving people this proof of the esteem 

 in which their forefathers held the animal Is 

 particularly interesting. A large white horse 

 is stated by Mr. Walker, Camden's colla- 

 borator, to have been the ensio-n of Heno^ist 

 and Horsa, who landed in Britain In a.d. 

 449, and this seems to be the only instance 

 in which the figure of a horse was employed 

 as an emblem by others than the Britons. 



Mr. Walker, whom Camden Introduces as 

 the great expert of the day, remarks, apropos 

 of the coins figured in the Britannia, that 

 in ancient times special value attached to 

 white horses ; in this respect, however, 

 horses were not singular, white animals of 



