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where gentlemen subdued this practice in their ser- 

 vants, and the most gentle and temperate accents were 

 found to succeed better than the frightful and thunder- 

 ing exclamations in general use. Every possible 

 means should be used by those who have either in- 

 fluence or power over that class of men, to abolish 

 this noisy and useless practice, which not only stuns 

 the poor, willing animal, but is also a great nuisance 

 while passing through the streets of a town. 



The old Suffolk breed of horses brought very high 

 prices, but of late a larger breed has become more 

 fashionable in that country and neighbouring districts, 

 which for largeness and beauty certainly excel the old 

 breed. They have been produced from a cross with 

 the Yorkshire half- and three-part bred horses of the 

 coach kind, and are particularly beautiful and lofty in 

 the forehand. In the year 18 13, at a sale in Suffolk 

 of the stock of a celebrated breeder, which was, in 

 consequence, numerously attended by persons of rank 

 and opulence, the horses brought considerable prices. 

 The following were a few of them : — A mare, with a 

 foal at her feet, ^124, 4s; a three-year-old filly, 

 £S^, IS ; a mare, which had lost the sight of one eye, 

 but of a beautiful form and powerful make, ;^98, 14s. 

 The whole of his stud consisted of fifty mares, 

 geldings, and foals, and brought the large sum of 

 ;^2263, 13s 6d. 



SECTION II.— OF ASIATIC HORSES. 



THE ARABIAN. 



Arabia being sufficiently above the level of the 

 sea, and having a surface composed of sand, mixed 

 with a portion of vegetable mould (a circumstance 

 favourable to pasture-ground), and the plains of Persia, 



