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rapid carriage of merchandise. The brow of these animals is slightly 

 bulging between the orbital arches, which are prominent. The face is 

 long, with a narrow forehead, straight at the top, but slightly bulging 

 out towards the tip of the nose ; the nostrils are open and mobile ; the 

 lips thick and the mouth large ; the ear long and erect ; the eye lively, 

 and the countenance animated. Their mane is but poorly provided 

 with hair, but the tail is bushy ; the legs are strong and firmly jointed, 

 with rather long shanks devoid of hair. Their coat is generally a dappled 

 gray color, but other colors are not uncommon. 



The Heavy Black Dray-Horse, which is conspicuous in the 

 brewers' carts in London, is more adapted for show than for utility. 

 They are noble-looking animals, very docile, with round fat carcasses 

 and sleek coats, but they eat a deal of hay and corn, and at long-con- 

 tinued work would be beaten by a team of active horses a good deal 

 lower. Many of these dray-horses stood seventeen hands high at two 

 and a half years old, but all have the fault of slowness, their pace being 

 about three miles an hour ; their effectiveness lies in their weight alone. 



We have made no mention of the horse as an article of food. M. 

 Figuier writes : " Every one is acquainted with the efforts which, during 

 the last year or two, have been made (and to some extent with success) 

 to introduce horse-flesh for the use of the public. In Paris and some 

 other cities in France, at the present time, it forms no inconsiderable 

 portion of the nutriment of the poor. Prussia and the north of Europe 

 .vere the first to set the example in this path of economy." 



