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to the draught. But such as have a considerable portionof the old blood, are easily distinguished, by tlieir smallness ofhead and neck, and cleanness of bone. They are generallyof a light bay or brown colour, and their legs black. Thename of Galloway is sometimes given to horses of an inter-mediate size between the poney and the full-sized horse,whatever may be the breed.

. III. The Clydesdale Breed.

The Clydesdale or Lanarkshire breed are a mixed race, ofthe origin of which various accounts have been given, noneof them so clear and distinct, nor so well authenticated, as tomerit any notice. The name has been given them, not be-cause they are bred in the county of Lanark alone, for thesame description of horses are reared in the other westerncounties, and over all that tract which lies between the Clydeand the Forth, and also in the counties of Peebles and Sel-kirk ; but they have been known by this name, from theprincipal markets at which they are sold. They are procu-red at the age of one or two years, at a fair in Lanark, andanother in Carnwath, about six miles above Lanark, held inthe month of August, and beginning of September; andwhen five years old, great numbers are resold by their for-mer purchasers, at the fairs of Rufherglen and Glasgow , inthe latter end of May, or beginning of June, to horse-dealersand farmers from the Lotliians and Border counties. Manyof them are carried every year from these fairs to Carlisle, andother parts in the north of England.

1. The Clydesdale horses are usually between 14 and16 hands high, and of a black, brown, or grey colour. Awhite spot on the faces of those that are black or brown, isesteemed a mark of beauty; and a small patch of white onone or more of the legs is very common. But when the legimmediately above the hoof is of a white colour, the hoof isalso white, and a white hoof is never so firm and durable asa black one. The shapes of the best horses are not objec-