BritTisyH 
CAVALRY. 
ANTIENTe 
HO RB us ids Crass Ff. 
one load thirteen meafures, which at a moderate 
computation of 70 pounds each, will amount to 
910; a weight fuperior to that which-the leffer fort . 
of camels will bear: this will appear lefs furprifing, 
as thefe horfes are by degrees accuftomed to the 
weight; and the diftance they travel no greater 
than to and from the adjacent hamlets. 
Our cavalry in the late campaigns, (when they 
had opportunity) fhewed over thofe of our allies, 
as well as of the French, a great fuperiority both 
of ftrength and aétivity: the enemy was broken 
through by the impetuous charge of our {quadrons ; 
while the German horfes, from their great weight, 
and ina¢tive make, were unable to fecond our ef- 
forts; though thofe troops were actuated by the 
nobleft ardor. 
The prefent cavalry of this ifland only fupports 
its antient glory; it was eminent in the earlieft 
times: our fcythed* chariots, and the activity + 
and good difcipline of our horfes, even ftruck ter- 
ror into Cz/ar’s legions: and the Britaims, as foon 
as they became civilized enough to coin, took care 
to reprefent on their money the animal for which 
they were fo celebrated. It is now impoffible to 
trace out this fpecies ; for thofe which exift among 
the indigene of Great Britain, fuch as the little 
* Covines yocant, quorum falcatis axibus utuntur. Pomp- 
Mea, lib. iii. c. 6. 
+ Cafar. Com. lib. iv. - Strabo. lib, iv. 
horfes 
