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their regular rate of speed with this enormous load is seven 
miles an horr, and this pace is maintained over rough and 
hilly regions. On some routes the roads are lighter, when the 
speed is increased to eight, nine, and sometimes to ten miles an 
hour. 
6. Cleveland Bay.—According to Mr. Youatt, the true Cleve- 
land Bay is nearly extinct in E>gland. They were formerly 
employed as a heavy, slow coach-horse. Mr. Youatt says: 
“The origin of the better kind of coach-horse is the Cleveland 
Bay, confined principally to Yorkshire and Durham, with 
verhaps Lincolnshire on one side and Northumberland on the 
other, but difficult to meet with pure in either county. The 
Cleveland mare is crossed by a three-fourths or through-bred 
horse of sufficient substance and height, and the produce is the 
coach-horse most in repute, with his arched crest and high 
action. From the thorough-bred of sufficient height, but not of. 
so much substance, we obtain the four-in-hand and superior 
curricle-horse. 
Cleveland Bays were imported into western New York a 
few years since, where they have spread considerably. They 
have often been exhibited at our State (airs. They are mon- 
strously large, and for their size are symmetrical horses, and 
possess very respectable action. Whether they would endure 
on the road at any but a moderate pace, we are not informed, 
and have some doubts. Whether they spring from the genu- 
ine and unmixed Cleveland stock, now so scarce in England, 
we have no means of knowing. The half-bloods, the produce 
of across with our common mares, are liked by many of our 
farmers. They are said to make strong, serviceable farm 
beasts—though rather prone to sullenness of temper.* 
7. The Conestoga Horse—This horse, which is found chiefly 
in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States, is more remarkable 
for endurance than symmetry. In height it sometimes reaches 
seventeen hands; the legs being long and fhe body light. 
* Randall. 
