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willing animal, but is also a great nuisance while passing 
through the streets of a town. 
The old Suffolk breed of horses brought very high prices, 
but of late a larger breed has become more fashionable in 
that country and neighbouring districts, which for largeness 
and beauty certainly excel the old breed. They have been 
produced from a cross with the Yorkshire half and three- 
part bred horses of the coach kind, and are particularly 
beautiful and lofty in the forehand. In the year 1813, at 
a sale in Suffolk of the stock of a celebrated breeder, which 
was, in consequence, numerously attended by persons of 
rank and opulence, the horses brought considerable prices. 
The following were a few of them :■—A mare, with a foal at 
her feet, £124. 4s. ; a three-year-old filly, £85. Is.; a 
mare, which had lost the sight of one eye, but of a beautiful 
form and powerful make, £98. 14s. The whole of his stud 
consisted of fifty mares, geldings, and foals, and brought 
the large sum of £2,263. 13s. 6d. 
SECTION II.—OF ASIATIC HORSES. 
THE ARABIAN. 
Arabia being sufficiently above the level of the sea, and 
having a surface composed of sand, mixed with a portion of 
vegetable mould, (a circumstance favourable to pasture- 
ground,) and the plains of Persia, situated still higher above 
the ocean, and consisting of a deposit of alluvial soil, 
resting on granite, are naturally dry, and by means of their 
heat attract moisture from the horse. On the other hand, 
the aromatic vegetation, which is there strong and succu¬ 
lent, drives from him those humours, the exudation of 
which is favoured by the imperceptible, but continual, per- 
