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THE HOESE. 
THE SUFFOLK PUNCH. 
of too mixed and varying characters to be regarded as breeds, or too few in numbers to be of economical interest beyond the 
districts which produce them. When unmixed they are often merely the older pack horses, somewhat enlarged in size, and pre¬ 
senting the varieties in colour and form which these native horses have possessed for an unknown period. In Cornwall and the 
higher parts of Devonshire, Wiltshire, and elsewhere, low sturdy horses are in common use, which are active and useful beyond 
what their external appearances would indicate. The lower parts of Wales, in like manner, produce horses of moderate stature 
and ordinary form, but which are hardy and true to their work; and the same remark will apply to a great part of the horses of 
the districts bordering on Wales. Northward through Lancashire, we find horses of a mixed breed generally inferior in figure 
to those of the eastern counties, but stout and well adapted for common labour. In Cumberland, many good Horses are pro¬ 
duced, which may be regarded as related in part to the Durham and in part to the Clydesdale breed of Scotland. 
