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vations were made in 1628, says: “This country aboundeth in 
bestiall, especially in little horses, which for metall and riding, 
may rather be termed bastard barbs than Gallowedian naggs.”’ 
The foliowing passage accurs in the Description de Galoway, by 
John Maclellan, in Blaeu’s Az/as published at Amsterdam in 
1662: “Hn ninguno de los puestos, o territorios de Escocia son 
las lanas tan finas, y de tan buena raca los cavallos, puesto que 
pequenos, los del pays les llaman Galoway-nages ; de suerte que 
ocasiona la prerogativa desta tierra en esla especie el comun 
termino entre los Ingleses, que hairendo de alabar la 
generosidad, partes, a servicio bueno de un cavallo, le llaman 
Galoway, como por exemplo en Espana Xerezano, 0 Cordoves.’’* 
Defoe, writing about 1725, gives a brief but more detailed 
account of these animals. He says: “ The People of Galloway 
have the best Breed of strong, low, punch Horses in 
Britain, if not in Europe, which are from thence called Gadlo- 
ways. These Horses, which are very much bought up in 
England, are remarkable for being good natural Pacers, strong, 
easy Goers, hardy, gentle, well-broken, and, above all, not apt 
to tire.’ The breed was becoming scarce by the eighteenth 
century, and it is said that the second Earl of Stair, when he 
was abroad as an ambassador, sometimes selected a pair of 
Galloway nags as a gift for persons of distinction. Robert 
Heron, who made a tour through Galloway in 1792, says that 
the province “ was anciently famous for a small breed of horses, 
very little larger than the horses of the Highlands and of Shet- 
land, known commonly by the name of Shelties. That race 
are no longer preserved unmixed here. Nor does the breeding 
of horses enter so much as it once did into the ceconomy of the 
farmers in these parts. Irish horses are often imported into 
Galloway.’’ A writer in The Statistical Account of 1845 explains 
why the breed became scarce, and gives further details: “A 
* In no place or territory in Scotland are the fleeces so fire 
or the horses of a better breed, although they are small. The local 
name for the latter is Galloway Nags. In view of the reputation 
of this region in this matter, Englishmen are in the habit of testi 
fying to the breeding, good proportions, and worth of a horse by 
calling it a Galloway, just as, for example, in Spain good horses 
are attributed to Xeres or Cordova, 
