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REVIEW— LOW’S DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
Mr. Low appends a sketch of the present state of Britisli 
wool, and the woollen trade generally; but perhaps he has not 
done full justice to those who have preceded him in this path. 
An engraving of the old Lincoln sheep concludes the 
ninth number. This breed has almost passed away, or is rarely 
to be found of unmixed blood. This animal, however, has been 
selected from a flock that has been maintained perfectly pure, from 
a period previous to that in which the Dishley blood was intro- 
duced. Some of these sheep arrive at the strange weight of 
fifty or sixty pounds per quarter. The wool also is peculiar for 
its toughness and length of fibre, and yet its peculiar softness. 
The tenth part commences with the early history of “the 
Horse,” the first domestication and early use of which he traces 
to the great centre of the human family in Europe. On this 
subject, however, we will not at present enter. Colonel Charles 
Hamilton Smith has lately published a very interesting work on 
the history of the horse. Mr. Karkeek has commenced, in the 
present number of The Veterinarian, a lengthened review of 
this publication, and, ere many months have passed, the author 
of this review must be again in the field on the same sub- 
ject. We must, therefore, content ourselves with a very slight 
mention of the plates which this part contains. 
The first is the old English black horse, occupying the rich 
fens of Lincoln and Cambridge, and extending westward, through 
the counties of Huntingdon, Northampton, Leicester, Notting- 
ham, Derby, Warwick, and Stafford, to the Severn. His colour 
is usually of a sooty black, with frequently a white lozenge-shaped 
mark on the forehead, and usually one or more of the feet 
or legs white. His body is massive, compact, and round ; his 
limbs stout ; his chest broad ; and his neck and back short ; his 
mane thick ; and his legs hairy, down to the heels — his whole 
aspect conveying the idea of great physical power, without cor- 
responding action or spirit. The largest and finest of these 
horses are in great demand for the brewer’s dray, or the waggons 
of the coal-merchant. 
The Professor next turns to the Cleveland Bay, bred in York- 
shire, Durham, Northumberland, and even beyond the Tweed. 
They present every diversity of size, colour, and breeding. Some 
portion of the blood of the race-horse is diffused among them, 
according to the use for which they are destined ; and this is 
effected on scientific principles. The district of Cleveland owes 
the production of its beautiful race of horses to the possession of 
a distinct and definite breed, formed not by accidental mixture, 
but by continued cultivation. It is the scientific combination of 
action with strength, yet with that form and those qualities 
which arc peculiarly essential to the carriage horse. 
