Br HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS, 



The BLACK-HORSE. 



No other country has produced a breed of Horfes 

 equal in fize and ftrength to the larger kind of our 

 draught Horfes. The cavalry of England is in general 

 formed of this clafs of Horfes ; but their inutility being 

 experienced in fome fituations, others of a lighter and 

 more active kind have been fubftituted in a few regi- 

 ments. The fens of Lincolnmire generally produce a 

 larger breed than any other part of the kingdom. In 

 London, there have been inftances where a fingle Horfe 

 of that kind has drawn, for a fmall fpace, the enormous 

 weight of three tons, half of which is known to be their 

 ordinary draught. 



Confiderable improvements have of late years been 

 made in this kind of Horfes, by Mr Bakewell of Difh- 

 ley, and others ; who, by great attention and ingenuity, 

 have acquired fuch celebrity, that they frequently fell 

 ftaUions of their refpe&ive breeds for two hundred gui- 



