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when a push is required to be made, nothing I can say will 
give any idea of it.” 
Not less true than creditable to our nation is the fact:— 
£( What is very remarkable, whenever colts or fillies from 
other countries are imported into England, from the modifi¬ 
cation and improvement they undergo while there, they 
return to their native soil more like English horses. They 
become stronger, more sinewy, more let down ( tonquins ), 
which is all dependent upon the manner in which they are 
governed and fed. The excellence of the meadow hay, to¬ 
gether with the corn-bin, exercise a decisive influence on 
their modifications. While but a year old, they are allowed 
a peck of oats a day; straw being kept from them as in- 
nutritious ; while hay of superior quality is allowed them in 
abundance.By such means has a country, which in 
the year 1588 could scarcely muster two regiments of cavalry, 
reached, in the year 1850, to the possession of nearly two 
million horses. Added to which, the studs of all the civi¬ 
lised nations of the world (Arabia excepted), are at this 
moment tributary for their horses to English breeders.” 
To say the work w T e have culled so freely from, and taken 
no little pains with, so far as we have yet turned over its 
leaves, is, to Veterinarians and horsemen, an entertaining 
one, would be to pass an insufficient paneygyric upon its 
author; it is more than entertaining—it is historically and 
professionally edifying; and withal, highly complimentary to 
the horse community of the British nation. Nor do we 
think that its author, M. Douterluigne, has stretched his 
praise of us, as a horse-cultivating people, beyond the limits 
of fact and truth; since, at the present hour, with one single 
exception, which, perhaps, we ought to make in regard to 
trotting to the Americans, we do not believe that we have for 
speed, utility, and beauty in horse flesh, a rival on the face 
of the earth. With these brief remarks we, for the present, 
take our leave of Douterluigne; yet we do so unwillingly, 
after having spent so pleasant an hour as we have in his 
company. Nor should we, indeed, take leave here, were it 
not that our space refuses admission to so much as remains 
behind as would still tempt us to continue our extracts. 
Our readers will enter at once into our feeling on this head 
