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fen lands of Lincolnshire and Cambridge- 

 shire, and extending westward through the 

 counties of Huntingdon, Northampton, 

 Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Norwich and 

 Stafford, on to the Severn. It has also been 

 extensively bred in the low-lying pasture 

 lands of England, in the counties both 

 north and south of those named, everywhere 

 retaining its typical character subject to 

 slight variations produced by differences of 

 climate, soil and food. 



When Arthur Young, in the latter part of 

 the last century, was describing his tours 

 through the counties of England and Scot- 

 land, he mentions only two varieties of Cart 

 Horse as deserving attention, namely, the 

 Large Black Old English Horse, ''the pro- 

 duce principally of the Shire counties in the 

 heart of Enoland and the Sorrel-coloured 



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Suffolk Punch for which the sandy tract of 

 country near Woodbridge is famous." 



The writer's use of the word '' Shire " will 

 be remarked ; we cannot doubt but that a 

 breed of horses whose home was in these 

 counties would have been known in other 

 localities as "Shire Horses," like the "Nor- 

 folk Trotter" and "Suffolk Punch," and at 

 a later date the "Clydesdale;" the only 

 difference beino- that the Shire was dis- 



