30 HORSE. Class & 



invasion, all the cavalry which could then be 

 furnished amounted only to 3000 : to account 

 for this difference we must imagine, that the 

 number of horses which took the field in Ste- 

 phens reign was no more than an undisciplined 

 rabble ; the few that appeared under the banners 

 of Elisabeth, a corps well formed, and such as 

 might be opposed to so formidable an enemy as 

 was then expected: but such is their present in- 

 crease, that in the late Avar, the number employ- 

 ed was 13,575;* and such is our improvement in 

 the breed of horses, that most of those which 

 are used in our waggons and carriages j - of dif- 

 ferent kinds, might be applied to the same pur- 

 pose : of those, our capital alone employs near 

 22,000. 

 Pro pag a- A horse can engender at two years, or two 

 years and a half. Mares will breed at two 

 years old, and will continue breeding till five 

 and twenty, and even till thirty. 



The learned M. dc Bttffon has almost ex- 

 hausted the subject of the natural history of the 

 horse, and the other domestic animals ; and left 



*■ The number of ' British cavalry employed in 1810, 

 amounted to 23,807, of foreign and colonial cavalry, to 3,594, 

 exclusive of horses attached to the artillery, and the waggon 

 train. Ed. 



f It may be also observed, that the use of coaches was not in- 

 troduced into England till the year 1564. 



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